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> It’s also one more reason why the consumers who sought a cash settlement from Equifax won’t be getting the full $125 as initially expected.

> In fact, consumers were never going to get $125, ... “That’s down to $6 or $7 [per consumer] now. Maybe even less than that,”

That's what all your personal information and your identity is worth. $6.

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> That's what all your personal information and your identity is worth. $6.

That's not how much it's worth, that's just how much Equifax was able to corruptly negotiate to pay for losing it.

If you really want to know how much it's worth, you could probably compute a reasonable estimate by taking all the money the credit bureaus from your credit file, and divide that by the number of credit files.

Let me rephrase. $6 is what your personal information and identity is valued at by corporations.

It would be $0 and probably covered up if the corporation had the choice.

If they had a choice, it'd be considered a burden and a tax write-off :-)

No. It’s much worth more than 6 to them but they are trying to tell you it’s less

Equifax followed all laws on the settlement.

Also, when that statement is ever made, it really highlights flaws in our system when the rich/corporations/layers write the laws in their favor... So much for "for the people" right?

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