Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
My favorite part of this system is when they give you a year of it as compensation for a data breach, saying it’s worth 12x its monthly fee (which they make up). That’s not even touching on the fact that their solution to losing your data is asking you for more of it.<p>I’ve never been lucky enough to be compensated with such a service. But it wouldn’t surprise me if they were so helpful that they even auto-enroll you in another (paid) year at the end of your free trial!<p>One also wonders why reforming the credit bureaus is not a bipartisan priority in Washington. Congress is apparently only interested in fighting over the issues that nobody can agree on. Don’t hold your breath for any progress fixing systems that anyone except a lobbyist can clearly point to as broken.<p>The problems might get some attention if the corporate media chose to hype them, but guess who buys a bunch of advertisements on their news channels?