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You can freeze the worknumber so people running background checks can't get information. When I changed jobs the company ran a background check and they kinda freaked out cause they couldn't get anything out of this database. I loved it.

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Gartner has predicted by 2038, the average American will spend 17 hours per day opting out of things they never opted into.

Do they predict what percentage of trackers this continuous coke-filled click-fest will actually disable?

They did not, because the number wasn't estimated by adding up predicted time per tracker or service, but by determining this is about the maximum the market can bear - i.e. a steady state of the system.

Curiously, Stratfor also predicted 60% chance of the US going to war with the EU before 2036, due to EU privacy regulation threatening to shut down the increasingly adtech-based US economy.

This serious analysis is stupider than the entire plot of Idiocracy.

I can’t tell if that’s a real report or something from The Onion.

“How to freeze your work number”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33212195

I would do the verification over email as that means they didn't typo whatever email you gave them (easier to typo an email address rather than a phone number).

You still need to email them two forms of identification (personal ID and mailing address) then it takes three days.

I wonder if security of the payroll data lookup is even worse than the credit report website. A 'freeze' may be worthless if the data leaks are large. And a person making $18/hour to do child support case management may interested in making extra cash by looking up other people for a fee.

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