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Data Brokers Have Millions of Workers' Paystubs; See If They Have Yours - YouTube
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well who sees your pay sub each payday
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just you your boss the irs and a data
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broker a data broker that's the issue
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there is a good chance that a private
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data company is getting to see your pay
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stub too but why consumer investigator
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chris kimura has been asking how why and
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what can you do about it
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what we're about to explain is likely
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surprising and new to you but it's
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probably not at all new to the execs in
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your company and it's growing fast
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look online we share who we love what we
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eat where we travel but not how much we
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make talking about one's salary is
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really not common practice and never has
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been san francisco etiquette expert lisa
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misragrat says it's proper to keep your
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paycheck private your salary is between
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you your boss and your family period
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well not anymore it's mind-blowing and
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people have no idea that's john weinberg
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i'm a law professor at wayne state
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university in detroit and one of the
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things i pay attention to is privacy and
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databases professor weinberg and i
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discussed the work number a company that
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says it has payroll records on more than
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half the country's workforce so where
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does the work number get all those pay
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stubs it says more than 2 million
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employers hand over their workers
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payroll data every pay period as a way
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to outsource the headache of verifying
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employment and pay
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the credit report company equifax owns
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the work number for
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54.95
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it'll verify a person's employment and
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provide their pay history
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equifax says the federal fair credit
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reporting act dictates who's authorized
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for access equifax says it only lets in
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people who say they are verifiers people
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like landlords bank officers hr and such
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who want to check your employment or
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income but folks like debt collectors
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can buy a report too
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weinberg sees trouble equifax has not
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historically been real good about data
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security
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about making sure that only the people
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who are supposed to see the information
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actually see it the fbi said chinese
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intelligence breached equifax in 2017
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and compromised more than 150 million
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americans credit reports we asked
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equifax about the work numbers security
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it declined an interview but sent us a
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statement saying it takes data
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stewardship very seriously and random
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audits weed out people who lie to access
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its trove of half a billion pay records
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i really question the usefulness of
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having all this data hayley tuskayama is
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with the electronic frontier foundation
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which advocates for civil liberties
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including privacy tuskayama has concerns
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about employers forking over employees
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private pay data she wonders whether
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workers have any idea what's going on if
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employers are doing this without
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employee consent then i think it
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shouldn't be happening the work number
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is not alone
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in san francisco there's true work its
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website says users can instantly access
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more than 35 million workers payroll
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data true work did not respond to us so
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why are so many companies sharing their
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employees private payroll info we ask
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walmart because it employs more people
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than any other company and its website
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indicates it uses the work number we did
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not get a response next we asked three
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big business lobbying groups also no
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response then that really calls into
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question you know why they believed it
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was a good idea at all or if they even
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thought through it equifax says the two
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million companies that share payroll
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data win because sharing it saves them
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time and money outsourcing employment
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verification then employees win getting
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quicker loan decisions is getting a
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decision
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a minute an hour or a day faster than
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before worth having all of this payroll
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information stored
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for who knows how long in one place
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so i definitely as a privacy advocate
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would say no so what about opting
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yourself out equifax said no well then
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takayama says your boss should let you
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decide whether to give your pay stubs to
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data brokers employees should be able to
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make the individual choice if you ask
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your company to let you opt out lisa has
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some etiquette for your conversation i
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would be very upfront and frank with my
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boss and say i really don't feel
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comfortable about this can you please
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remove me from the list
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you are not powerless here right now you
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can see if the data brokers have your
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payroll data you can read through it
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yourself you can check for errors
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dispute them you can even lock down all
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of your data all from the work number
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website i just did it myself and to help
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you we made a how-to video that runs
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through every single step we've just
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posted it to our website and our youtube
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channel we're going to run it on tv
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tomorrow too
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