I spent the weekend researching data removal methods and decided to start with my credit report. I’m not even going to get into all of the alarming privacy invasions that popped up during this process. But when I got to the experian report, I was met with T&C box that says I have to hand over my phone carrier info and it wouldn’t let me proceed without doing so. The bureaus are legally required to give you one free report a year. It’s bad enough that these companies are even given rights to my data and now they’re using it to request further information.

I’m just so angry, frustrated, and violated.

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      11 hours ago

      Thank you for pointing this out. We all know the facade of end-user control (data opt-outs, deletion requests, report downloads., etc) leads nowhere. But I appreciate the someone who does go down that rabbit hole just to document the law-breaking at the end of the tunnel.