JoeChip<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span></p><p>Whoa, never realized that Pinkertons had a financial equivalent! I can't think of hard-boiled detective book featuring bank spies.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/retailcreditcompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retailcreditcompany</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/experian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>experian</span></a></p>
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Cory Doctorow<p>Equifax's competitors are no better. <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Experian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Experian</span></a> doxed the nation again, in 2021:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/dox-the-world/#experian" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/dox</span><span class="invisible">-the-world/#experian</span></a></p><p>It's hard to overstate how fucking scummy the credit reporting world is. Equifax invented the business in 1899, when, as the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/RetailCreditCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetailCreditCompany</span></a>, it used private spies to track queers, political dissidents and "race mixers" so that banks and merchants could discriminate against them:</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2017/09/equifax-retail-credit-company-discrimination-loans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2017/09/equifax-re</span><span class="invisible">tail-credit-company-discrimination-loans</span></a></p><p>3/</p>
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