@pluralistic

Whoa, never realized that Pinkertons had a financial equivalent! I can't think of hard-boiled detective book featuring bank spies.

#retailcreditcompany #experian

Equifax's competitors are no better. #Experian doxed the nation again, in 2021:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/dox-the-world/#experian

It's hard to overstate how fucking scummy the credit reporting world is. Equifax invented the business in 1899, when, as the #RetailCreditCompany, it used private spies to track queers, political dissidents and "race mixers" so that banks and merchants could discriminate against them:

https://jacobin.com/2017/09/equifax-retail-credit-company-discrimination-loans

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