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> “I would go to dinner and they would say ‘Equifax! Crazy! Nothing you can do,’” she recalled.

Exactly what we hear around here, too.

She only won compensation for identity insurance she had paid for. So, TBH, unless folks are willing to pay for identity insurance and give a lot of personal information to yet another damn company, there's still nothing the rest of us can do that don't want to do that other than wait around for our identity is stolen so we can sue for damages..

Edit: if you disagree, I'd love to hear how we can hit back. Because I've not found a way, nor seen anyone else do so in a way that doesn't require what West did in this article (paying for some service).

Edit2: I misunderstood, she did not have to pay for insurance to win.

The point is less what she won, than it is that she won.

You're missing the point. I care less about what she won, but how she won. She won in a way that I'm not willing to do (give info to yet another company, and pay them, then sue for compensation). I suspect I'm not alone.

Edit: she responded, I thought she had to pay for insurance to win damages, but I misunderstood! that's great news!

Isn't it a company that is already owned by equifax, already has your data, and given that equifax has already screwed the pooch, your data is already out in the wild.

I know this is nitpicking but I did not pay for any identity insurance. I said that if I had to, it would cost this amount and offered low end and high end costs for this. The judge decided to add these numbers together as if I had paid for it and awarded that to me (and I was clear about this in court, I did not fudge it to make it look like I had paid)

I see, thanks for the clarification. That means pretty much anyone would have a chance of doing similar!

Thank you. That is really important information; it means some justice can be had without paying back into the very industry that caused the mess in the first place.

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