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by Scoundreller 1395 days ago
> Equifax's one job

Oh, they've got their hands more pies than credit ratings

> Equifax also offers fraud prevention products based on device fingerprinting such as "FraudIQ Authenticate Device."

> selling consumer credit and insurance reports and related analytics to businesses in a range of industries.

> Equifax sells businesses credit reports, analytics, demographic data, and software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax#Products

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Obviously I was being hyperbolic, which is partly why I emphasized it. Though this list doesn't actually read to me as being anything more than "monetizing everything they can even remotely related credit ratings". It's not really a different "product" selling credit ratings for their intended purpose to banks and selling them to non-bank businesses for looser moral purposes, is it?