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by estiaan 815 days ago
Do you have a source for that? Or any more info? It’s not that I doubt it, I ask because some details like my work email, job title and place of employment has been leaking into the hands of marketing companies and I an trying to figure out how.
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Your own company could've sold it to data brokers. Look into Equifax's Work Number score, it includes fun things like where you worked and how much you made. But no, let's not unionize or anything.
Companies with union labor also sell their employees' data to Equifax.

Unions are on board with this, see e.g. https://unitedafa.org/news/2020/5/9/employment-verification-...