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Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by Danihan »

joering2 wrote: post #72
skinnymuch wrote: post #35

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Damn credit karma shows you all that? I don't think I've seen any place where it says how much I've paid for CCs or my bank accounts or my salary (not sure if that's just because it's self-employed/freelance income).

Its funny how people downvote without checking. Yes I can see every month how much I owe and how much I paid back. Month after month history. I sure also see my checking and savings accounts, from every bank (currently 2), with up to date (well, 7 days ago) status on how much money I have there. I don't know what else I can say? Screenshoots - no thank you.

I have checked, and you're spreading misinformation.

If you have checking accounts on there it's because you specifically added / linked them into their system, having bank accounts on there isn't a default.

You have to go under "Track Spending" and manually add the accounts, including entering in the Username and Passwords for them.

https://www.creditkarma.com/question/is-there-a-way-to-add-m...

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by [deleted] »

turc1656 wrote: post #61
tyingq wrote: post #45

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There's an alternate set here, still up and running. https://secure.w2.talx.com/popups/findemployer.aspx https://secure.w2.talx.com/PreAuthenticated/employerEntry.as...

Thanks, but despite the page loading this doesn't seem to be working. I found my employer and even after clicking the radio button for the result, it then tells me that code is not found, which makes no sense, obviously, unless they have disabled it without putting up the maintenance page.

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Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by yebyen »

CommentCard wrote: post #20

It's offensive that I have to go jump through hoops, set security questions and a secret pin just so I can secure my own salary information. Is it too much to dream that Equifax should be legally obligated to provide, at the bare minimum, a way to easily secure this sensitive information? If I were a hiring manager or in HR this would be a goldmine for verifying candidates' salaries and work histories, and gaining th…

I understand that every time I've applied for credit, I gave permission for those organizations to share my information with third parties.

But why can Equifax just go ahead and store and share my information in perpetuity, with no explicit grant of permission from me, or EU-style GDPR to guarantee my right to evict my information from their database?

Why doesn't Equifax have to ask for my permission before _they_ can forward my information that was shared with them to additional third parties? The bank had to ask for permission, so why doesn't Equifax?

Is it because I am really the product and not the customer? I just can't accept that!

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by pricechild »

huebnerob wrote: post #36
CommentCard wrote: post #20

It's offensive that I have to go jump through hoops, set security questions and a secret pin just so I can secure my own salary information. Is it too much to dream that Equifax should be legally obligated to provide, at the bare minimum, a way to easily secure this sensitive information? If I were a hiring manager or in HR this would be a goldmine for verifying candidates' salaries and work histories, and gaining th…

1. I've only ever given my SSN to a company in the same packet of information that contained my signed offer letter, so we'd be far past negotiations at that point. If you're worried about them going back and verifying what you said you made, well, you shouldn't be lying about that anyway. 2. I'd hope that people might hesitate a little bit before committing acts of identity fraud on an institutional scale.

> If you're worried about them going back and verifying what you said you made, well, you shouldn't be lying about that anyway.

I get why it's important to tell the truth to e.g. a lender during a mortgage application.

Why should a prospective employer deserve this information?

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by TimPC »

nowarninglabel wrote: post #70
mjevans wrote: post #65

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Maybe it's time to just make tax returns (and therefore salaries) part of the public record. I think that transparency could make for a more fair process and also level negotiation since the compensation would then be about the role and how good someone is actually rated, rather than about how much they happened to have been paid in the past or how good they are about lying about it.

It'd be great to read the arguments against making them public. There's good reasons why we should make them public available here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/business/yourtaxes/14discl... Secrecy is good in many places, but I can't think of why it is good for tax returns, asides from perhaps allowing criminals to more easily target those with high incomes?

How about start-ups? If employers have access to your salary history in terms of a taxable compensation number but no access to information on what your options were this seems to suggest that employers will discriminate against start-up workers who traded off compensation, since their automated HR look-up would be unwilling to give someone the big raise related to not having equity and working in big corp.

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by blaisco »

nsxwolf wrote: post #19

I didn't know this existed at all. I thought they just made phone calls to your previous employer and asked. Are we allowed to see what's in it? I mean normally, not just when there's a data breach (and it looks like they shut it all down right now). Because when you get asked this on an interview, what's the "right" answer? There's base pay, bonuses, 401k match, all kinds of stuff. So the "right" answer is up in the…

Yes, you are allowed to see what's in it. I remember checking my salary history a year ago. I was surprised at how detailed it was.

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by mjevans »

TimPC wrote: post #86
nowarninglabel wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'd be great to read the arguments against making them public. There's good reasons why we should make them public available here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/business/yourtaxes/14discl... Secrecy is good in many places, but I can't think of why it is good for tax returns, asides from perhaps allowing criminals to more easily target those with high incomes?

How about start-ups? If employers have access to your salary history in terms of a taxable compensation number but no access to information on what your options were this seems to suggest that employers will discriminate against start-up workers who traded off compensation, since their automated HR look-up would be unwilling to give someone the big raise related to not having equity and working in big corp.

I've never had stock options to list; wouldn't those also be assets you need to declare on taxes?

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by [deleted] »

plandis wrote: post #21

> As part of our ongoing commitment to performance, reliability and security, Equifax Workforce Solutions will be servicing The Work Number starting Sunday, October 8, 2017. This will result in temporary service interruptions; if you have received this notice please call our service center at 866-222-5880 to complete your transaction. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Convenient that Equifax is doing…

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Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by jogjayr »

TimPC wrote: post #86
nowarninglabel wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'd be great to read the arguments against making them public. There's good reasons why we should make them public available here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/business/yourtaxes/14discl... Secrecy is good in many places, but I can't think of why it is good for tax returns, asides from perhaps allowing criminals to more easily target those with high incomes?

How about start-ups? If employers have access to your salary history in terms of a taxable compensation number but no access to information on what your options were this seems to suggest that employers will discriminate against start-up workers who traded off compensation, since their automated HR look-up would be unwilling to give someone the big raise related to not having equity and working in big corp.

OTOH job-seekers would know what current employees at the company make and demand similar compensation.
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