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Interesting. How would one obtain a copy of these reports?




> The information that you provide will only be used by us to verify your identity and for consumer disclosure purposes. It will not be provided or sold to any other company.

lol suuuuuuuuuuuuuure


I don't even want to type my info into that form because then they'll have that known-good data point.


If you’re an adult in the US, they already have all that info about you. I’ve written some software that makes calls to various LexisNexis services and it’s insane how much data they have.


From the article: The company claims it holds 283 million distinct individual dossiers of 99.99% accuracy tied to “LexIDs,” unique identification codes that make pulling all the material collected about a person that much easier


However they seem to intentionally use the worst half hearted id lookup for those requests. I tried multiple addresses and they still kept sending me papers saying they could not find my record:


Maybe if I request it I'll figure out why I always fail those identity checks that ask me facts about my own life.


At least you will know all the answers


Interesting, I looked at getting my own. It's free, but they will send it via snail mail.


US mail is more secure than emailing it to you.


Is it? I trust Google more than postal workers / people who live near me.


You can go after your neighbors. It's inadvisable, but it's much more tractable than taking on Google.


In my case they mailed me a piece of paper with an access code on it, which led to a site with an encrypted PDF containing my report. The password to the PDF was the same as the access code I got.




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