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Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by emteycz »

pydry wrote: post #790
robertlagrant wrote: post #787

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It's hard to know what you're saying here. What is "spin out of control" and why do you think it isn't addressed by competition and regulation?

I'm saying that when it comes to regulation the sausage is mostly shaped by the same monopolists you naively assume it would protect us from. And capital has a tendency to kill off competition you assume will just appear and magically take over.

It's not assumed, that's the objective of state: To create a sustainable and consumer-oriented market through regulation and incentives.

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by andreyf »

divbzero wrote: post #285
theanti9 wrote: post #207

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This happened to me as well. bunch of random @yahoo addresses (I don't have one of those) and rando phone numbers, none of which were mine. Welp.... who knows wtf they have in there then, I guess.

Could this indicate past attempts by fraudsters to adopt your identity?

More likely to be a fake match so that people can't check whether records are in their database.

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by ok_dad »

dang wrote: post #782
ok_dad wrote: post #526

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Taking HN threads into nationalistic and/or ideological flamewar like this is against HN's rules and we ban accounts that do it. Please don't do it again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

I understand thanks, this article bit me the wrong way. I rarely post things like this.

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by pydry »

emteycz wrote: post #791
pydry wrote: post #790

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm saying that when it comes to regulation the sausage is mostly shaped by the same monopolists you naively assume it would protect us from. And capital has a tendency to kill off competition you assume will just appear and magically take over.

It's not assumed, that's the objective of state: To create a sustainable and consumer-oriented market through regulation and incentives.

This is again, a feelings-based assumption. States do not behave according to this goal.

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by emteycz »

pydry wrote: post #795
emteycz wrote: post #791

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not assumed, that's the objective of state: To create a sustainable and consumer-oriented market through regulation and incentives.

This is again, a feelings-based assumption. States do not behave according to this goal.

It's not a feelings based assumption, it's the role of liberal democratic states determined by the basic principles of democracy. That the states do not fulfill their role is their own fault.

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by the-alchemist »

nip wrote: post #516
varenc wrote: post #88

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Wow placing a freeze requires filling out a PDF form, attaching a scan of your ID, and then sending it in over email, mail, or fax. The PDF lacks built in form fields you can type in. The extra friction is probably a feature: https://assets.equifax.com/wfs/theworknumber/assets/twn_Empl... (the exif data on that PDF shows the name of the employee that created it and that they used Word 2010...) The Equifax CCPA reques…

Shameless plug [1] that hopefully provides value: simplePDF.eu [2] will allow you to fill it in more easily (the fields are already set) [1] It's a side-project of mine [2] https://www.simplepdf.eu/editor?open=https://assets.equifax....

Thumbs up for https://www.simplepdf.eu! Just generated the Equifax form.

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by robertlagrant »

olliej wrote: post #770
p1esk wrote: post #739

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By your logic, corporations are people too

That is indeed what the US Supreme Court agrees with you. Except of course corporations don't go to jail for committing crime.

This is why corporations have directors. Do we have to go through the motions of this tired old cliché?

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by robertlagrant »

pydry wrote: post #795
emteycz wrote: post #791

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not assumed, that's the objective of state: To create a sustainable and consumer-oriented market through regulation and incentives.

This is again, a feelings-based assumption. States do not behave according to this goal.

> This is again, a feelings-based assumption

What feelings are you talking about?

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by panchtatvam »

The real question is why should Equifax have my data in the first place. My contract is with my employer not with Equifax. This is a breach of trust by the employer using my information as its product for sale. What is the government role in regulating this ? If government can't regulate this, what is the point of government's existence ?
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