>The Work Number is so important that Equifax is engaged in the work that should be reserved to a government. While I'm sure many shallow ideologues are deligh

>The Work Number is so important that Equifax is engaged in the work that should be reserved to a government. While I'm sure many shallow ideologues are delighted to read it, this take misses the fundamental problem: concentration of power. Creating a government organization that does the things Equifax does will not change the balance of power even there's some nominal legislature or executive oversight. Worse still would be giving those tasks to an existing agency. The problem here isn't that Equifax isn't government. The problem here is that a singular organization is providing a set of services and the nature of those services and the information processing they do to provide them results in it having too much power and result in those who it affects having too little recourse. Unless you divy up the services Equifax performs across more organizations, public or private, you will not fix the problem (the clearest path to doing this is probably federal anti-trust law IMO).