[yebyen]

I understand that every time I've applied for credit, I gave permission for those organizations to share my information with third parties.

But why can Equifax just go ahead and store and share my information in perpetuity, with no explicit grant of permission from me, or EU-style GDPR to guarantee my right to evict my information from their database?

Why doesn't Equifax have to ask for my permission before _they_ can forward my information that was shared with them to additional third parties? The bank had to ask for permission, so why doesn't Equifax?

Is it because I am really the product and not the customer? I just can't accept that!