ARTICLE: Your employer may share your salary, and Equifax might sell that data - By: Bob Sullivan via redtape.nbcnews.com
Quotes from the Article:
The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country, has assembled what may be the most powerful and thorough private database of Americans’ personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records covering more than one-third of U.S. adults.
Some of the information in the little-known database, created through an Equifax-owned company called The Work Number, is sold to debt collectors, financial service companies and other entities. ...
But salary information is also for sale by Equifax through The Work Number. Its database is so detailed that it contains week-by-week paystub information dating back years for many individuals, as well as other kinds of human resources-related information, such as health care provider, whether someone has dental insurance and if they’ve ever filed an unemployment claim.
The full article is available here: Your employer may share your salary, and Equifax might sell that data
This is very scary for everyone and significant invasion of privacy.
You can attempt to find out what information The Work Number has about you by going to: http://www.theworknumber.com/Employees/DataReport/. Note that not all reports or information is available online.
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