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Re: Equifax Settlement



 > 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.




Why do you want this page removed?