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During the 1960's and 1970's, Equifax came under criticism for the extensive nature of information that it was obtaining about consumers. This included information about an individual and other private parts of a person's life like marital status, employment, sex life and political affiliation. Much of the criticism was due to not only the extensive nature of the information, but the methods by which it was obtained, and their willingness to "sell" the information.
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Equifax provides SBFE members with information on more than 24 million small businesses in the U.S., including banking, credit card, and leasing credit information. Equifax ... supplements the reports with demographic information, vendor and supplier payment history, as well as business public record data. Over the past three years, the SBFE has more than doubled the number of trade lines in its database and has more than tripled its membership
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The Lotus Development Corporation and Equifax Inc. said today that they had canceled plans to sell a data base of names, addresses and marketing information on 120 million United States consumers. Stored on compact disks for use on personal computers, the product, which was to be called Marketplace: Households, had been scheduled for shipment in March.
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Equifax serves the financial services, retail, credit card, telecommunications/utilities, transportation, information technology and healthcare industries, and government. Global operations include consumer and commercial credit information services, payment services, software, modeling, analytics, consulting and direct-to-consumer services.
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Equifax enables and secures global commerce through its information management, consumer credit, marketing services, business information, authentication and e-commerce businesses. As a leader in information services, Equifax adds value wherever customers do business, including the financial services, retail, healthcare, telecommunications/utilities, information technology, brokerage, insurance and business lending industries and government.
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As of July 2007, Equifax form letters include a toll-free number, (888)876-5796, that is no longer in service. Below this defunct phone number, the Equifax form letter informs customers that they "must call within 60 days" if they wish to dispute any information contained within the letter.
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