
If you think that credit reporting agencies know and share too much about you now, you’d be shocked to learn what could have been in your credit reports 35 years ago. “Wedding announcements (including the color of the bride’s dress), promotions, arrest records, real estate transactions, anything that appeared in the newspaper” could have wound up in your credit file, according to bankruptcy attorney Eugene Melchionne, who went to work at a local credit reporting agency, the Waterbury Credit Bureau in Waterbury, Conn., in the summer of 1979.
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