The super fucked up part is that it automatically signs you up for their "Credit protection" if you use their site to see if you were impacted. Doesn't ask if you'd like to, just says "Thanks for signing up, your year starts now!"
They gave me a date in September that I have to remember to come back and sign up for. It's the equivalent of grabbing a ticket in the deli line.
Look at this text: "Please be sure to mark your calendar as you will not receive additional reminders. On or after your enrollment date, please return to faq.trustedidpremier.com and click the link to continue through the enrollment process".
That's enraging. You tell me I'm affected and now I have to come back at some date/time and sign up? At least it has given me the time to read all the comments about waiving class action participation.
At what point do we finally tell abusive companies like this that they're no longer allowed to be a company?
I cancelled my Equifax credit watch account about 5 months ago, when they decided to raise rates.
Never have I hoped so much for a business to be sued out of existence. And hopefully their inside traders will get jail time (yeah, right).
" Based on the information provided, we believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident."
It then had some button, I forgot what the button said. This led to the screen about "save the date" for protection.
You can check if you're impacted then just not proceed to click "enroll" and be able to check without auto-enrolling and agreeing to their 1yr protection + arbitration agreement.
There is now plausible deniability for so many things.
IIRC, there wasn't even a clickthrough and they framed it as "find out if you're affected." How could that be enforceable?
... Regardless of whether your information may have been impacted, we will provide you the option to enroll in TrustedID Premier.
I am not a lawyer.
I really hope this puts Equifax out of business.