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Re: Equifax Settlement
- To: http://www..family/~flora (Flora E ), http://www.vermont.gov/~flora. (Flora E ), http://profiles.yahoo.com/Flora (Flora E ), http://www.gmail.com/~flora (Flora E )
- Subject: Re: Equifax Settlement
- From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:17:59 -0700
- Cc: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
- Keywords: our-San-Jose-phone-number<
> From: Flora <http://www..family/~flora>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:45:32 -0400
>
> I just remember trying to get the free monitoring when I was affected by
> the OPM breach (or whatever was being offered). I needed to lift my credit
> freeze for them to start the monitoring, and I was not willing to do that
> at the time.
Really? I wouldn't lift my freezes over my dead body.
> I will, however, look at what what I need to do this time around.
>
> I think that if everyone who qualifies, files a claim, it would really send
> a message that we do not accept the behavior of these credit reporting
> agencies, that we value our personal information and we are not their
> product!
I think one of Elizabeth Warren's proposals is to have recording of credit
history "opt in"; that is, you would need to say that, for a given
transaction, that you would want it sent to the credit reporting agencies
as part of your credit history. This would be a good step.