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Fringe: Free credit monitoring for the masses
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:55:08 -0500
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-credit1708jun17,0,7568776.story Company offers to monitor credit record for free Richard Burnett | Sentinel Staff Writer June 17, 2008 In an unprecedented legal deal, one of the nation's major credit reporting companies has agreed to offer free credit monitoring service to potentially hundreds of millions of U.S. consumers. TransUnion LLC launched the offer Monday as part of settling a 10-year-old class-action lawsuit that accused the company of improperly selling targeted consumer-data lists to other companies for unsolicited marketing activity. The company also agreed to pay $75 million into a settlement fund. It is the largest consumer-related class action settlement on record in the U.S., experts say. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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