What do you think of free credit monitoring they offer after a breach? (moist.catsweat.com)

submitted 2 months ago by HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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So here is the thing. Given the Eqifax breach I kinda feel like giving yet another agency to much information for them to monitor your credit is just another source of a possible future data breach.

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[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

This is because collecting so much information isn't about protecting your security or even monitoring your credit in Equifax's case. It's about collecting even more digital you and selling it to whoever will pay. They don't care about data breaches, they care about profit and on any 'free' service that means selling you and/or forcefeeding you custom ads.

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