Archive for the ‘Misinformation’ Category
Employers use credit scores meme in blogosphere
A blogger with a dark fantasy, one of Fortune’s top 25 most influential liberals in U.S. media, and scores of duped blogosphere commenters come together to further the employers-use-credit-scores meme. Creditscoring.com ventures into the social media audience. How will it end?
Enough to be Dangerous: CreditCards.com
Recently, Experian (“the leading global information services company”*) announced that it and CreditCards.com “will co-host a live, interactive, online town-hall discussion of credit reporting and scoring.” CreditCards.com made the same announcement, replete with countdown clock to the exciting event. Experian’s newfound public outreach/reach-out for goodwill follows the drubbing it took at the hands of Congress and the FTC [...]
Enough to be Dangerous: U.S. Bank and PrivacyGuard
To: Steve Dale, senior vice president, Media Relations, U.S. Bank From: Greg Fisher Date: April 29, 2010 Subject: Fake-O FICO Funk, U.S. Bank You state, “Get your credit report and FICO score online now, plus have your report monitored for signs of identity theft.” However, the credit score that I received by using your link [...]
mint.com and Experian – strange bedfellows
See if you can follow this. The players The Consumerist, a former property of notorious Gawker Media, is now owned by Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports. The move is nearly inexplicable, but, apparently, CU thinks that that is how to get young and hip. But there is a firewall. A new entity, Consumer Media LLC, [...]