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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Nothing matters

[DalM]

Nothing matters. This has no meaning. He won't lose his job. He won't even lose a second of sleep. He doesn't care about this or anything. Nothing matters.

Because he's rich. Wealth is the only virtue American culture acknowledges.

dialogue on the record

[Anonymous Coward]

A more meaningful dialogue would have been something like
- Porter - would you take this $100 bill to post your information on line now, or even $1000, I have the cash in hand
- Begor - that's personal information
- Porter - how about $10,000, I have a suitcase of cash here
- Begor - Congresswoman, I don't want to engage in this sort....
- Porter - answer the question yes or no
- Begor - this sort of hypothetical...
- Porter - let the record show that Begor wouldn't not take $10,000 to post his personal information on line and that should be the starting amount, per person, for a payout in any settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Equifax

Then that might have some legal implications, and not just be grandstanding

Re:She didn't destroy anything

[Shotgun]

But, did she introduce legislation to fix anything. She wasn't elected to tell us that the toilet is backed up. She was elected and handed a plunger.