My first instinct was lobbying spend, but Amazon and Google show up in the top 20 and Equifax isn't on the list (although, I have my suspicions that the numbers

My first instinct was lobbying spend, but Amazon and Google show up in the top 20 and Equifax isn't on the list (although, I have my suspicions that the numbers here aren't necessarily the whole picture. Financial chicanery is a whole industry, after all). [1] I can imagine, though, that hiding information is a lot easier when you're less often in the public eye. Amazon and Google, through their ubiquity, have a higher hill to climb when it comes to avoiding scrutiny. 1 - https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders