Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber?

Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by danielrhodes on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:42PM (#33211521)

At a previous place I worked, the company was not even aware this information was being shared with Equifax. The payroll provider would share this data by default unless it was explicitly turned off.

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Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:33AM (#33211772)

This. It’s often ADP, Paychex, etc that is sharing the data. Did they get permission from the companies? I don’t know.

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Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by gareth_untether on Saturday October 15, 2022 @02:08AM (#33212186)

Thanks to this comment I searched for QuickBooks and Equifax. QuickBooks signed up their customers to automatically to share data with Equifax:

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/employees-...

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Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by tothrowaway on Saturday October 15, 2022 @01:50AM (#33212106)

I just emailed Gusto to find out if they are sharing data with Equifax. I did not see a way to opt out in the employer or employee interface.

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Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by Invictus0 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @02:08AM (#33212187)

I work at a company using Gusto and Equifax did not have my data from my current employer, you should be ok.

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Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by toomuchtodo on Saturday October 15, 2022 @07:32PM (#33219636)

Kudos to Gusto for not following the lead of less scrupulous payroll providers.

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Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by tothrowaway on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:15AM (#33314774)

Gusto never responded. That is quite incriminating to me (you can't plea the 5th in the marketplace).

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