Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims

Re:Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millio... by g051051 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:16AM (#20582811)

> my birthday, most of addresses I've had since the mid-90s, every family member I've shared an address with since 1999, information on two vehicles I presently own and one former,

Your existence in the world isn't a secret. Every scrap of that is public information. You have a postal address to get mail, you register your car with your state to pay taxes on it, etc.

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Re:Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millio... by tbyehl on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:01PM (#20588789)

Well, your point overlooks the points I was aiming for.

1. Any of those scraps of data have negligible value by themselves, but when they're aggregated and traded their value is vastly increased.

2. I don't have any choice in how those scraps of data were originally gathered and shared. Should I not to have an address? Pay my taxes? Register my vehicles?

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Re:Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millio... by g051051 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:22PM (#20589299)

1. Yes, that's true. The value increases, in that the more data that's available, the better the decisions that can be made.

2. So? Why should you have a choice in it? Those things are classified as public records, available to anyone.

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Re:Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millio... by mLuby on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:44AM (#20583614)

But it really doesn't need to be.

Maaaaaybe birth certificates should be public, but why should who owns what car be public? Or who lives at what address?

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