This is obviously a terrible invasion of privacy, but that is not the only problem. Information on credit reports is routinely wrong, and there in many cases i

This is obviously a terrible invasion of privacy, but that is not the only problem. Information on credit reports is routinely wrong, and there in many cases it is virtually impossible to remove. I've had some random addresses listed as "previous addresses" on my credit report for decades, and no matter what sort of letters I write or how many hoops I jump through, they remain. I got a new phone number last year, and still occasionally receive calls from whoever it was in South Carolina who previously had this number. What are the odds that a realtor is getting that person's data, instead of mine? What if you are on a family plan, it is a business phone, or registered in someone else's name? These may sound like edge cases but even if it is only 5% of people that's tens of millions of people in the USA alone who could potentially get screwed by this.