Comments on: Free Credit Monitoring From TransUnion – Update

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:50:44 +0000

Transunion STINKS! Mailed 8 letters and legal documents so the jerks would correct their typo errors for my MAILING ADDRESS and to DATE they have not corrected it. ITS WORSE! they cant READ, cant TYPY and cant TELL THE TRUTH! What can they do? When I called it got another JERK in INDIA who cant speak CLEAR ENGLISH! The Chester PA office STINKS!

By: Starky

Starky — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:03:59 +0000

Yeah, and another problem is that it is the GOVERNMENT itself in many cases that is doing much this snooping, stalking, surveilling, and violating of our privacy–all in the name of “SECURITY”! Hah. WHOSE security? Certainly not the security of us “little people”!

By: Kristy

Kristy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:04:55 +0000

Unfortunately, the only way to go after them is to:

a. Change the laws
b. File Class action lawsuits
c. Convince the FTC or your state attorney general to sue them.

Unfortunately, none of these things are quick fixes.

By: Datamining Stinks

Datamining Stinks — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:48:24 +0000

We’re sick and tired of credit card companies, insurance companies, telephone companies, DMV, SSA, and so on, GIVING OUT OUR PRIVATE DATA, with no real PUNISHMENT! What good is a few months’ of credit monitoring or a class action lawsuit that MIGHT provide a small cash settlement (think $20-40)?!

The DAMAGES done by violating people’s privacy far outweigh any of these slap-wrist solutions when these privacy violators do get caught and have to “pay.” For those who have worked HARD all their lives to be private and avoid harassment or stalking, these kinds of relentless privacy violations create havoc, destroy peace of mind, cause disruptions in their lives and sometimes put them at risk of physical harm–and it is high time that the government start TRULY PUNISHING the dataminers and others who are harvesting and disseminating our private info without our knowledge and without our permission.

WHERE can we begin to protest this ongoing violation of our privacy rights? And in the meantime, those who feel upset by this ongoing trashing of privacy in America should start to vote by closing their accounts with all agencies who indulge in this dirty business of datamining and selling our private info.