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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by gehwartzen on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:10PM (#15504660)
They (The work Number/Equifax) don't license it at all. Company's pay for the privilege in fact. It's sold as outsourcing the "costly" HR task of providing salary data themselves. Other companys or individuals then pay Equifax $35 to make a single enquiry or subscribe at a monthly rate.

Users include 82% of all F500 companies and they have 225 employment records.

My company uses it :(

http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/30/16762661-exclusi...

This is a pretty shocking news article regarding the last time Eqifax was in the news about this a few years ago. At that time (like now) they were selling the data to all kinds of companies.

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by psergeant on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:00AM (#15505585)
Shameless plug for something I wrote today, in case you’re wondering what companies use it for and what you can do about that

“Developer employee cheatsheet: WTF is Salary Benchmarking?“

https://codeformore.com/developer-employee-cheatsheet-wtf-sa...

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by le-mark on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:30AM (#15507293)
Interesting read, thanks. How does one go from "senior engineer" to "architect"? Any tips?
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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by otakucode on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:56AM (#15508447)
Stop writing code and start writing documents. Use lots of buzzwords and emerging technologies.
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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by odbol_ on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:22PM (#15509733)
Well the first step is to design some architectures for large systems. Poof, you're an architect.
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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by timthelion on Thursday October 19, 2017 @04:43AM (#15506391)
Can I use it to find out what my co-workers make and negotiate a better salary,
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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by astura on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:38AM (#15507343)
No. The FCRA makes you obtain premission from your coworker first.

You give permission to your employer to query those sorts of databases when agreeing to a "background check" as a condition of being hired.

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by mcv on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:17AM (#15508068)
If the employer needs permission, then they presumably don't get that permission if it's against this new law.
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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by atomical on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:22AM (#15506532)
Wouldn't you need their social security number?
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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by timthelion on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:39AM (#15506604)
Luckily you can just download those from the internet.
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