October 26, 2026: Whispers, Rumors, and Your Credit Score

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Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

For decades, a company could fill a file on you with rumors, gossip, and outright fabrications, and you'd never know it existed until you were denied a loan, a job, or an apartment. On October 26, 1970, President Nixon signed Public Law 91-508, bundling two very different measures into one bill. The Fair Credit Reporting Act finally gave consumers the right to see their own credit files and correct errors, a direct response to years of scrutiny following journalist Vance Packard's 1964 exposé "The Naked Society" and Senator William Proxmire's campaign against what he called a "shadow government" of unaccountable c...