<story><title>As Equifax Amassed Ever More Data, Safety Was a Sales Pitch</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/business/equifax-data-breach.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blfr</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Equifax persuaded more than 7,000 employers to hand over salary details for an income verification system&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How? Is it all from the Talx acquisition?&lt;p&gt;If not, that is impressive. For many companies payroll is the most or even only really sensitive information.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pktgen</author><text>&amp;gt; Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, and Kroger, the second biggest, said they were comfortable continuing to send Equifax their payroll data.&lt;p&gt;Kroger has a large union workforce. It will be interesting to see if their unions make this an issue and force the data handover to stop.</text></comment>
<story><title>As Equifax Amassed Ever More Data, Safety Was a Sales Pitch</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/business/equifax-data-breach.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blfr</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Equifax persuaded more than 7,000 employers to hand over salary details for an income verification system&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How? Is it all from the Talx acquisition?&lt;p&gt;If not, that is impressive. For many companies payroll is the most or even only really sensitive information.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makmanalp</author><text>Aren&amp;#x27;t there laws against releasing payroll data without the consent of the employee?</text></comment>