Anyone else participate in the Equifax Data Breach Settlement? \ stacker news ~privacy

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Anyone else participate in the Equifax Data Breach Settlement?

618 sats \ 9 comments \ @k00b 21 Dec privacy

I got a whole $22.31 for them making it easy to steal my identity.

Now I only have to give a bunch of PII to another company I've never heard of to redeem my settlement.

If none of this sounds familiar, there's a pretty detailed wikipedia article.

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181 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21 Dec

I hadn't heard of this, but I have an insider story on the bad security / privacy practices of these companies.

Early in my career, I worked with one of the 3 major credit reporting companies to obtain credit score data.

We would send them the names and addresses of people using data we already had, along with a number of other data columns.
They would send us back our data, with credit scores attached, and the names and addresses de-identified (since we didn't really care about the names and addresses per se)

However, we were worried that they'd inject noise into the data columns we did care about, as a way to prevent the data being matched back to the original dataset.

We asked our contact whether they would do anything like that, but the sales contact didn't understand our question.

When we ultimately did the transaction, they didn't inject any noise into our data, which was good, but which also meant we could easily have matched the data back to our original data and recovered everyone's names and addresses.

166 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 21 Dec

I’m revealing a little bit here, but I received 2 push notifications for this post:

A stacker whose posts to which I’ve subscribed made a post
Someone posted in a territory to which I’ve subscribed

These are properly deduped at /notifications, but not at the push notification level.

I’ll try to open a github issue.

I’m also thinking it would be cool to have a way to submit github issues directly from SN. Probably overkill, though

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 21 Dec

That's 23,000 sats...

66 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 21 Dec

True!

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 21 Dec

That’s not a bad settlement

I have received checks for less than a dollar

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 21 Dec

Probably spent more in postage than the checks worth

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zephyr_Knight 21 Dec

Dang. What color lambo are you getting?

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 21 Dec

I got an email from them the other day

You have a valid claim and are eligible for an additional payment. It will be sent to you by electronic pre-paid card.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 21 Dec

This is a wonderfully large settlement, NOT. How much do you think the lawyers made on this grand finale? I bet they made millions and we get chicken feed..