Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: In a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) asked whether Equifax CEO Mark Begor would be willing to share his address, birth date, and Social Security number publicly at the hearing. Begor declined, citing the risk of "identity theft," letting Porter criticize Equifax's legal response to the 2017 security breach that exposed almost 150 million people's data of that sort to an unknown intruder. The company had unsuccessfully asked a judge presiding over a class-action suit over the breach to dismiss it, saying the plaintiffs hadn't "sufficiently alleged injury and proximate causation" to bring suit, as Yahoo Finance reported late last month.

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Re:Trump changed the landscape

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Don't be fooled. History did not start with Trumps election. A large percentage of the voting public feels that there was nothing but name calling and zingers coming from Democrats for many years. For goodness sake, very single Republican since Reagan, no matter how conciliatory, has been labeled as a racist. Trump seems to be the first Republican elected to national office that has had the cajones to throw some of the bullshit back.

You can't blame someone for fighting back against an attack.