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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 justifier »

winston_smith wrote: post #91
justifier wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What stops [someone].. Interviews scheduled during work hours, already working multiple jobs, burnout, lack of openings in your field > It hardly is THAT hard to get some competing offers. And if you can't be bothered, I guess you don't really want it anyway? This sentiment signals bias Competing offers? For what? Serving coffee? Washing dishes? DBA? CTO? If you offer anyone with a job more money my guess is 100% w…

> This sentiment signals bias While your sentiments are presumably bias-free?

I think everyone has bias, but I do think issues can be discussed without letting your biases supplant reason

What I meant by signalling bias was I felt the gp was allowing bias about the issue cloud reasoning as to the nuance of the issue

If my comment seemed to imply that I deny nuance then I failed to communicate my point

Which was: sometimes pay is a result of other factors other than either a want or pure negotiation

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by justgottasay3 »

nwatson wrote: post #74
matt_wulfeck wrote: post #6

> The service is designed to provide automated employment and income verification for prospective employers, and tens of thousands of companies report employee salary data to it. It sounds like companies can easily use this to collude against employee wages and benefits.

I just froze my family's credit reports with all three credit reporting agencies ... I wonder whether that blocks employers from this info as well, I imagine it's a completely separate service though.

want to get rich fast... start a new credit reporting agency that just does a 'sed' on one of the big three reports and feeds it to you as their report... put a big warning on the home page that folks should freeze their report from your CRA for just $5.00. Watch the money roll in. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by joering2 »

Danihan wrote: post #81
joering2 wrote: post #72

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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...

You have paid membership account, yes?

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Post by bspn »

TaylorGood wrote: post #80
nwatson wrote: post #74

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I just froze my family's credit reports with all three credit reporting agencies ... I wonder whether that blocks employers from this info as well, I imagine it's a completely separate service though.

There's a fourth as I've learned through this fiasco. Worth freezing: Innovis

Which, as I discovered today, is a massive PITA. A letter arrived in the mail saying the freeze won't be effective until I mail them a copy of my photo ID.

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by dj-wonk »

winston_smith wrote: post #93
nowarninglabel wrote: post #70

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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?

Public tax returns would make it much easier for people to put pressure on others working toward financial independence. In some poor communities, there's a strong ethic of sharing good fortune. That's good in many ways, but also makes it hard to climb out of poverty. More generally, lots of people have unbounded spending habits, and some will put a lot of pressure on friends/family if they find out they have any sav…

For what it is worth, every time I hear the phrase "working toward financial independence", it sounds like Newspeak to me. Let's call it what it is: almost everyone wants to make money because satisfying our various needs is part of the human condition.

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Post by freehunter »

KGIII wrote: post #77
foobarian wrote: post #50

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How about mandatory 2FA rfid token implants, then we can put this SSN business behind us.

You can't really mandate implants. Well, you could but that's how you get open revolution in the streets.

Luckily we already have 2fa implants. They're called retinas or fingerprints, to be used in conjunction with passwords.

What you have, what you know, what you are. Those are the three factors. Passwords and fingerprints are two of them.

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by freehunter »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #34
cityzen wrote: post #18

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Considering the $7.2 million contract the IRS just awarded Equifax in a no contest bid, I think we're definitely getting close! /s

If you have a better way to ensure knowledge based authentication continuity for all online IRS transactions until they switch providers, I'd love to hear it.

The first step would be open bidding to determine who is able to provide what.

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by freehunter »

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…

I mean I'm as upset about the breech as anyone but would you rather they not fix it? You can't complain when something gets hacked and then turn around and complain when they fix it.

Re: Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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Post by iosDrone »

downer72 wrote: post #98
shostack wrote: post #75

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Any suggestions on how to bypass the question of past/expected comp then?

In some cases, it is explicitly stated by the prospective employer that any refusal of requested information (or providing false information) will be met with a rejection letter. I have been on interviews where this is part of a boiler plate release/waiver for a background check, prior to receiving an offer letter, and on the same form, you are made to list prior employers, and fill in the salary box for each. And if…

My offer letter says that I'm legally forbidden from disclosing the terms of my compensation. You should just fill in the salary boxes that you are under a legal obligation not to do so.
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