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Re:Dropbox Smeared in Week of Megabreaches by bogomipz on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:10PM (#11834569)
By locking your credit however you are denying them the future business of selling your credit profile. Think if everyone did it.

But yes it's completely outrageous - you have to pay someone you didn't approve of having you data in the first place from giving it to another party likely did't approve of also having it.

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Re:Dropbox Smeared in Week of Megabreaches by CrazyMusicians on Saturday June 04, 2016 @07:48AM (#11835983)
Actually, freezing your credit does nothing to stop the bureaus from selling, mining, combining or otherwise doing what they want with the data they hold about you.
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Re:Dropbox Smeared in Week of Megabreaches by toomuchtodo on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:30PM (#11834634)
I agree with you and your implications! Only through our efforts can we push back though.
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