LINKS for Victims of Credit Reporting
Kindred Spirits - Other pro-consumer websites
Unlike many web sites dedicated to credit, the following do not appear to be
fronts for collection agents or credit bureaus:
EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center
PIRG Public
Interest Research Group talks about Credit Reports
Bayhouse Credit
Reports/Scoring and buying a house
Privacy Rights
International
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Privacy Issues - Commercial Privacy
- Jane Bryant Quinn (Washington Post) Credit
Reports #1 Credit
Reports #2
- Credit
Reports and Auto Insurance
- Credit
Reports and Identity Theft
- CNET
Report-The Search for personal data
- Canadian Site with
many links
Privacy Sites centering on Government Surveillance
- Network
USA Covers fingerprinting, SSN, National IDs, drivers license pictures
etc.
- Current
Events from above
- The IRS and Credit
Bureaus
- Public Hearings> on
Credit-see box on right side
- IRS and Credit
Bureaus
- Was
your Report used in a sting operation?
Corporate Misdeeds
- AdBusters- Home of
"Joe Chemo"
- Background Briefing: Big Brother Is Alive and Getting Bigger
Sites with uncomfortably close alliances to Credit Bureaus
- National Fraud Info Center Careful.
Reports of fraud or identity theft can protect businesses while harming the
Victims credit even more.
- Banking Magazine
New products to keep track of our habits on the way
- P&AB's Privacy & Business
Previously sponsored by Equifax in an attempt to avoid gov't regulation. Now
being used by corporations to fend off the "European Data Protection Act"
along with their parent the Center for
Social and Legal Research.
Student Loans
- Student Loan Issues
- Legal Advise on Student
Loans
- Student Loan Discussion
- CNN Financial on Credit
Reports and Student Loans
Misc
- Fair Credit Reporting
Act, as amended
- Changes to the
FCRA PIRG gives a good summary of changes to the law effective 9/30/97
- Nolo Press Legal Self Help
- Senate
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- The Skeptical Inquirer Asks the
right questions about psuedosciences such as credit scoring. Remember Carl
Sagan?
- Hi
Speed Photography
- Hobo Spider Web Site
Non frames Homepage