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Experian Proves They Are Not Looking Out For Customers Best Interest

Many people have taken advantage of all the benefits of the LockLife program. LockLife lessens the chances of having your identity stolen through several security measures that they implement. One of those measures is, LockLife will file a fraud alert with the major credit companies on behalf of its customers (everyday people like us) against disreputable companies and creditors. Experian is now saying that current credit laws don’t allow a third party (lifelock) to place fraud alerts, these can only be placed by the people affected. Experian is apparently upset that they are having to go through all the trouble and expense of filing these fraud alerts when they should be happy that more and more people are being protected from these fraudulent companies/people or at the very least questionable transactions.

Experian has taken the grand step of sueing LifeLock. LifeLock is a company and is trying to make a profit as well, but they are doing it in the name of protecting people. If Experian wins this lawsuit then they will continue to profit (as any company is entitled to) but will actually be providing less and less protection for everyone. If Experian were truly looking out for the best interests of the people they would welcome any system that would make it easier to spot fraudulent transactions and investigate them before it is too late. Instead, they are putting their already adequate bottom line first.

There is often debate as to whether a state agency should invest the money to upgrade or initiate a program of traffic web cams for the public to view. It is quite expensive and any good steward of public money wants to use those funds in the most beneficial way possible.

How used are traffic cameras? Well, during a winter snow that dumped 1-2 feet of snow in different locations around the State of Washington, followed by buckets of rain causing very poor driving conditions including washouts of bridges, avalanches, and more… the State of Washington traffic camera page received so many hits (visitors) that it was forced offline, unable to keep up with the networking resources needed. That tells us that there are more than a few people who do use these great resources to garner information on roadway conditions.

Traffic cameras are a definite must in today’s modern world.

In this series of posts we take a look at each state’s traffic camera system; how easily accessible they are, whether they are statewide or only in the major metropolitan areas, and if they are still frame or live streaming images.

This is hard to analyze when it comes to the state of West Virginia as it appears they have yet to develop a traffic camera system, or if they have it is for internal use only and not posted to the internet for general use. In today’s age there really is no excuse for any state in the entire USA to have accessible traffic cameras so the public can be aware of road conditions before they drive.

Taken right from the West Virginia Department of Transportation homepage:

The West Virginia Department of Transportation’s new web site redesign and our move to a dot COM address provides residents, business people and tourists with an attractive, easy-to-use, and technologically advanced tool to obtain information.

We would have to question the “technologically advanced” part of this statement. Most every state has viewable traffic cameras, why not West Virginia?