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Credit bureaus profit from your financial history

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Three massive corporations hoard your financial history without your permission or consent. They then charge banks significant fees to access it, and have the sheer audacity to charge you a fee just to freeze your own compromised data when their inevitable security breaches happen.

Credit bureaus profit from your financial history
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