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It has less to do with research, even.

Equifax, like many Fortune-N companies, has a heavily funded sales and PR team working actively against your individual research.

Should you, as an individual, apply to a company or attempt to buy a product that has been “sold” the Equifax product suite, you’re still beholden to Equifax services(or leave without the job or house).

You’re effectively stuck, unless you have the resources(time/money) to look for employers or products that stay away from Equifax.

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> Should you, as an individual, apply to a company or attempt to buy a product that has been “sold” the Equifax product suite, you’re still beholden to Equifax services(or leave without the job or house).

Worse, there's pretty much no way to tell to which companies and products this applies.

This isn't some fast food restaurant poisoning its customers. None of Equifax's "customers" got screwed by their data leak, only the targets of their "product" caught the ramifications.