You can send a letter to the Courts and let them know why you do or don't think this is a sufficient and decent settlement.
Share it, let's get people writing in, because this lets Equifax keep really everything and in the end little real effect from their failure to take care of the information they were entrusted with.
That was exactly my thought. It's like DDT on Mosquitoes. The ones that survived were resistant, so when they bred, all their offspring were resistant.
Could end up being the same issue here, so this could easily become a FAR FAR worse issue in the next generation or two of these worms.
If you look at the amount they increased wages by, 9.7 million and by 10667 employees and just take an average... that's only 908 bucks a person.
Don't get me wrong, 908 bucks a year is 908 bucks.
But take into considering hours, that's only a pay increase of just under 44 cents an hour.
So at the end of the day, they weren't severely underpaying employees.
Good to see a company take this step. I had this happen to me at one company I worked for... it actually resulted in a pay increase of over 4 bucks an hour, now THAT was nice!
Yepper! Chain of Custody MUST be recorded and preserved. Document Document DOCUMENT! EVERYTHING. From the moment it was found to who/where it went next, to every step you took with it.
This guy clearly was following that and did his due diligence of step 1 being, make a backup of the device. Then you have a record of everything as near time of discovery as possible, so if you're investigation hoses everything up, you can restore and start over.
The author is also correct in that once he's done his investigation, he passes it all on to the next level to do their job. So in his case, he's done. There is NOTHING else he should be doing. If he does it really could hose up any/all legal action.
Kinda like getting to court in a Sexual Assault case and finding on the arresting officer forgot to read the guy his Miranda Rights.... You can have 100% proof this is the guilty party, but he goes free because someone in the chain of custody hosed up their part.
You can send a letter to the Courts and let them know why you do or don't think this is a sufficient and decent settlement.
Share it, let's get people writing in, because this lets Equifax keep really everything and in the end little real effect from their failure to take care of the information they were entrusted with.