Scummy scammers have always been that way:
"Equifax invented the business in 1899, when, as the Retail Credit Company, it used private spies to track queers, political dissidents and "race mixers" so that banks and merchants could discriminate against them".
Equifax "doxed every adult in America and was given a mere wrist-slap, and now continues to assemble nonconsensual dossiers on every one of us"
npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33) says they might be brought to heel:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does
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2023-08-16 20:18:12
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wss://nostr21.comPublished at
2023-08-16 20:18:12Event JSON
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