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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.