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

Posted by msmash on from the check-mate dept.

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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  1. Re:Crabkeys by barakn · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're claiming a user with a 3-digit uid is a Russian troll? Idiot.

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  2. Re:This guy should be in prison by kaizendojo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which is correct of course, but never going to happen under this administration.

  3. Re: This guy should be in prison by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1, Informative

    So when you call a mobile phone service provider, or a bank, in China and ask them to help you log in to online service portal or otherwise make some change, how do they authenticate you?

    They authenticate with a mobile phone and WeChat or AliPay PIN. Identity theft is essentially nonexistent in China.