thisislife22d ago

Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb

Show threadanonymars2d ago

One (more) thing to opt out of:

Freeze Your Data - The Work Number
https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze

As I understand it, payroll whores your salary out to Equifax*, who then pimps it to others

* Yeah, that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach

Freeze Your Data | The Work Number

You can control access to your data by requesting a data freeze at any time, at no cost. This freeze means many verifiers will be unable to view your data from The Work Number.

Show threadlateforwork

No they sell it directly: https://theworknumber.com/solutions/industries/pre-employmen...

The Work Number is in fact Equifax.

Pre-Employment Verifications & Work History | The Work Number

Streamline pre-employment verifications with automated data from The Work Number to simplify your application processes.

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