In Hal Hartley's film The Unbelievable Truth, the main protagonist, Audry Hugo, offers a succinct summation of credit-score ethics: "People are only as good as the deals they make and keep." Equifax didn't even renege on a deal it had made with us; it did something worse. It made us the bill of goods in someone else's deal gone wrong. As many pointed out after the company finally made public the fact that the personal information of more than 140 million people had been stolen from its servers, Equifax was not in business with the people it gathered information on, and it had made no deals with them. As Mike Konczal
The unbelievable truth
The unbelievable truth
The unbelievable truth
In Hal Hartley's film The Unbelievable Truth, the main protagonist, Audry Hugo, offers a succinct summation of credit-score ethics: "People are only as good as the deals they make and keep." Equifax didn't even renege on a deal it had made with us; it did something worse. It made us the bill of goods in someone else's deal gone wrong. As many pointed out after the company finally made public the fact that the personal information of more than 140 million people had been stolen from its servers, Equifax was not in business with the people it gathered information on, and it had made no deals with them. As Mike Konczal