Comment Re:Credit rating databases aren't new (Score 1) 294
By this logic, a mugger is less scary than a police officer, because a police officer has legal authority to arrest you. News flash: people do not need legal authority to fuck you over.
Well, if private credit agencies had a tendency to show up at my doorstep, point a gun in my face, and order me to hand over my credit records, then I'd say you had a good point.
Wait, you're saying government "has" a "tendency" to "show up at my doorstep, point a gun in my face, and order me to hand over my credit records?"
Paranoid hyperbole much?
Obviously, I was referring to the mugger. Did you even read what I was responding to?