Credit bureau tracking of our credit activity appears to be real-time now a days. I was reviewing my credit report online from one of the bureaus and I noticed that a credit inquiry from a credit application that I had just submitted was already on my credit report. This is a bit unnerving. With the internet and instant communications it looks like privacy is becoming a thing of the past. You leave a trail everywhere of what you do.
Digg.com, “I just heard a piece on NPR about Experian selling your credit history to collection agencies. They constantly monitor your credit activity and if you start to pay off your credit and are getting back on your feet, they notify the collection hounds and let them have at you. This sounded pretty damn wrong to me so I got on Google”