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At my last full-time job, I helped our infra team staged a revolt and some of us threatened to quit when HR announced they had signed up for Equifax's employee verification service about 2 months after Equifax's most recent breach. I'm happy to say that within 3 days HR had stopped using this service.

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Why does it matter if it's Equifax or some other company? Employers are still handing over the data.

I take issue with much of the language used when discussing the Equifax breach. It wasn't a breach that Equifax lost my data. It was a breach that Equifax had my data.

Regardless, I don't see replacing one scumbag company for a different scumbag company as really fixing anything. Also this article is nothing more than a PR piece for Truework. Shame on the NYT for publishing such drivel and calling it journalism.

> Why does it matter if it's Equifax or some other company? Employers are still handing over the data.

Because in a just world, Equifax would be disbanded after that fiasco. They shouldn't be running around, offering more data-vacuuming services. GP and their colleagues did their part to send a market signal that they're not OK with the current state of affairs.

Thank you for your efforts!

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