Tried logging into Experian and NONE of my information is working. Wonderful!
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The irony of being alerted by Experian:
https://www.doj.nh.gov/news/2022/20221107-multistate-settlements.htm
Happened again 2 years later:
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/equifax-data-breach-settlement
The irony of a billion dollar company losing my personal info and helpfully offering me credit monitoring service from the other billion dollar company that lost my info. It’s so good.
Throw into the mix: I had to do business with AT&T because they were the only ISP available to my Appartment complex. I never had the choice to not do business with these companies.
Equifax handles my company’s payroll.
Please, I want to get off Mr bones wild ride.
We finally got a viable replacement for Comcast internet. I changed the moment I was able to and couldn’t be happier. 1.2Gbps symmetrical connection for $85 a month. That plus YouTube TV is $70 cheaper than what I was paying Comcast for their garbage service that had constant outages. Before, the only options were mobile internet or Verizon DSL.
Something something pot kettle.
Buzzzzz
It’s really lame that companies like AT&T even need your SSN. Why do they need that to set up a phone line or an internet connection? There’s gotta be a better way.
To identity you
Edit: I’m not defending the system. I’m just stating the fact
You can identify by other means. Or at least give the opportunity to use other means. If you can’t keep my personal information safe, you shouldn’t be allowed to collect it.
Agreed
okay but then they wouldn’t have as much data to sell and re-sell and corellate, and couldn’t ask as high a price.
do you just hate business?
Then why can I buy a prepaid SIM with cash and no ID? I do this when travelling to the US because it’s cheaper than international roaming.
If only there were some sort of moniker you went by other than a SSN. That coupled with some sort of location data could narrow you down to, ooh, one person I suppose.
In the UK we have NI number, which is used by my employer, pension provider, the tax services, the benefits office, and that’s pretty much it. It’s not used as a general source of ID by corporations.
From an outside point of view, the US system looks crazy. And that’s coming from somebody who’s country has a TV license.
Then why do our ISPs in Germany at best just need our contract confirmation and maybe a SEPA entry?
Even my bank I opened an account with just wanted to get my tax-id and my ID-number (wich changes with every re-issue).
there is no damn reason for them to identify any of their customers other than the idiots with contract phones
Something of a joke that, since the SSN is an identifier, the identity tool quickly becomes an identity theft tool once it’s been pilfered.
With humans increasingly pushed out of the customer service loop, these security scams get easier every day.
Why does AT&T need your SIN?!?
So they can permanently mark you as a poor when you miss a single monthly payment thus effecting your ability to do anything with money in the future making you poorer and perpetuating a cycle in order to trap you into a system that benefits from your suffering.
Or even better, my experience with them - they can permanently mark you as poor when the person who stole your identity in the last data beach (Thanks Experian!) doesn’t make their monthly payment, thus tanking your credit while you’re entering escrow on your first home.
Thanks AT&T, now my stolen information I never even gave you is probably back on the black market! The cycle continues.
Because people finance their phones with AT&T, usually without realizing it. “Free” phones and discounted phones are not usually free or discounted. You’re forced to stay with them to get the discount off each month. I hate it because I’d rather just pay for my phone outright and be done, but then you actually pay more.
Not sure I see how you end up paying more by buying your phone outright, it’s more up front but then your monthly price for service is lower.
They give you a discount per month. So for example, a $1000 phone is on sale for $600, but they don’t give you $400 off up front. Its a $11.11 per month discount for the next 36 months. You pay $16.67 per month until its paid off. If you pay it up front you pay $1000. If you leave early or pay it off early you lose the $11/month discount on the payment for the phone
Its intended to lure people in for an advertised cheap or free phone, but then you’re stuck with them paying for the device.
Depending on the calculation the phone + plan can be cheaper than just the phone and just the plan
Goddamn are we shadowrun now? Where are the pink Mohawk orc deckers?
deckers… jesus christ thanks for activating a neuron that hadn’t stirred in 20 years
Not surprising. I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point every person in the US will have been affected by data breaches.
That is very likely already the case, let’s be serious here. Our companies, especially the ones with really firm mono- or duopolies, give absolutely no fucks about protecting citizen data, they just have insurance to cover the damages.
The insurance requires that they take precautions. Cyber insurance is a really good thing.
You’re right about cyber insurance, I wasn’t thinking about that, and should have put insurance in quotes.
What I was referring to is when they just set aside some money for the inevitable lawsuit or fine, and do nothing about it.
Jokes on you, I’m off the grid.
-Posted from St Louis Library Roomba 2.1
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I froze my credit immediately.
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Wise words from cum
Yeah same fucking boat - absolutely bullshit.
Also same. I haven’t had anything to do with them since 2013 but they still somehow sent me an email. Not sure it is worth following up in, tho.
“American Thieves & Thugs”
— Archie Bunker
I swear one day these websites like haveibeenpwned.com and the like will start collecting the data you enter
Incoming $5 check from class action lawsuit
