This is insane. There needs to be a law that prevents a company like Equifax from doing this. How many millions of affected people, who are worried about Equifax’s failure to protect their information, will go to Equifax to see if they are at risk? How many of those people, who are freaking out about the very real possibility that their identity is at risk of being stolen, will just click past these things, because they want to just know as quickly as possible if they need to take action?
Equifax failed to protect the sensitive information of over half of all adults in America. Now that same company can force victims of its failure to give up their right to sue or participate in a class action, just so those victims can try to find out if they are in trouble or not.
This is wrong, and is yet another reason we need strong consumer protections codified by laws.