Two pillars of the American surveillance industry are #CreditReporting bureaux and #DataBrokers. Both are *unbelievably* sleazy, reckless and dangerous, and neither faces any real accountability, let alone regulation.
Remember #Equifax, the company that doxed *every adult in America* and was given a mere wrist-slap, and now continues to assemble nonconsensual dossiers on every one of us, without any material oversight improvements?
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Equifax's competitors are no better. #Experian doxed the nation again, in 2021:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/dox-the-world/#experian
It's hard to overstate how fucking scummy the credit reporting world is. Equifax invented the business in 1899, when, as the #RetailCreditCompany, it used private spies to track queers, political dissidents and "race mixers" so that banks and merchants could discriminate against them:
https://jacobin.com/2017/09/equifax-retail-credit-company-discrimination-loans
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