There is a way to "freeze" your job data I believe - totally different from freezing your credit. No idea how far it reaches but I have considered it myself. Anybody know how to do it?
The fair credit reporting act (FCRA) does not care about 'reasons'. Every company I have dealt with trying to go down that road has found themselves in a rather nasty end. Chex Systems, "WeWork", even a dating site. If you record data and then present it to others as factual history, you have to abide by the FCRA.
It should prevent other companies from getting your data. It does not stop Equifax from looking at the data they’re hoovering up. It’s going to take a law (something like the CCPA/CPRA) to destroy their Work Number product (by creating controls so tight on worker employment and compensation info a business can’t aggregate and sell it profitably).
Call your state and federal legislative representatives.
(It does appear California residents might be able to have The Work Number delete their data: https://myprivacy.equifax.com/personal-info ; I’m not a California resident, so please report back if this works)
Edit: I qualified my first sentence because Equifax might just ignore your workplace data freeze and hand out your info anyway.
>It does prevent other companies from getting your data.
I'm guessing that's what people in this thread are looking for? Surely not everyone here asking how to freeze (or providing instructions on how they did it) works at Equifax.
Wish I was surprised that I can’t access it. Somehow I zoomed in enough on my phone to sort of see the images without it placing half of them off screen(!), and correctly picked the images I could barely see. Got the green check mark and all. Got an error that I didn’t complete the CAPTCHA, did it again and another green check mark, but now it won’t submit at all.
