House committee says Equifax data breach was ‘entirely preventable’

The committee also made a number of recommendations that it said would need the cooperation of Congress, the White House and private companies. It called for greater transparency on data collection and security risks, “modernized” IT, reduced uses of Social Security numbers as identifiers. The government should also determine whether or not the FTC’s oversight …

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