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[Flint]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

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You have my birth date on numerous files you hold on me...

While cleaning up my credit reports, I was astounded to find that one of the three main credit bureaus had my date-of-birth listed incorrectly. Now, I ask you, in the absence of the two, most basic identifiers (first, last name & DOB), how are they making the connection between their file, and me (the person)?

Wouldn't something in their database reject the attachment of this file, based on the fact that a person can only have one DOB, and it never changes; therefore if someone with the same name has a different DOB, you can determine that it isn't the same person?

And these are the people that control every aspect of your life: whether you can buy a house, buy a car, apply for a loan, etc. etc. -- and they had failed to ascertain the simplest, most indelible aspect of my identity. WTF?