For context though, this is nothing like the Equifax issue, where the problem wasn't so much as firing employees for holding second jobs, as it was for the fact that Equifax misused client data intended for other purposes to identify these people. It becomes even worse when you consider that Equifax is a quasi monopoly that is almost mandatory for people to submit extremely sensitive private data to if they want to do basically anything in the US economy, including taking up a job, opening a bank account, credit card, renting or buying an apartment, adopting a pet, etc.
God I can’t wait till the incompetents that can’t even patch their software get even more power over my life.
They have an (onerous) process to opt out of “the work number”, but maybe opting out would be a signal