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Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by bsilvereagle »

Equifax is selling salary data as part of an "employment verification solution":

https://theworknumber.com/

You can view a copy of your report here:

https://employees.theworknumber.com/

It will contain:

* Previous annual salary

* Previous paycheck amounts

* Previous addresses

* Who has accessed the report in the past 24 months

From their website, this data may be able to be removed via CCPA:

> Employee data is exempt from the CCPA until January 1, 2022.

https://employees.theworknumber.com/california-consumer-priv...

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Post by Victerius »

If this is correct, then it would be risky for someone to lie to a new employer about their former salary in order to receive an offer for a higher pay, because the new employer could use this service to cross check the employee's claims.

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#5

Post by BeefySwain »

I checked earlier today and yep, my employer is selling my data and future earnings potential to the company that is infamous for poor data security.

A confounding factor is that as a hiring manager, and at least for all the hiring decisions I have been involved in, I know we did not use this to check candidates. So what's the upside?

EDIT: ADP Workforcenow appears to do this automatically. I'm curious to find out if anyone in our company even knows it is happening. I will find out soon enough, as this is definitely a hill to die on.

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#7

Post by nsxwolf »

Victerius wrote: post #4

If this is correct, then it would be risky for someone to lie to a new employer about their former salary in order to receive an offer for a higher pay, because the new employer could use this service to cross check the employee's claims.

How can anyone say it’s accurate?

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#10

Post by BeefySwain »

nsxwolf wrote: post #7
Victerius wrote: post #4

If this is correct, then it would be risky for someone to lie to a new employer about their former salary in order to receive an offer for a higher pay, because the new employer could use this service to cross check the employee's claims.

How can anyone say it’s accurate?

Employers provide it. Obviously they could report incorrectly, but it's not like Equifax is just guessing.
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