Equifax

Credit reporting company. If you're an American citizen, they have a file on you... an example of Technology and the erosion of privacy.

They bought the Polk Database which gives them the largest database of demographic data in the world. And you wondered where all those questionnaires you filled out went to...Ever register a product? It's in the database.

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