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Old Jul 29, 2019 | 9:52 am
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Originally Posted by vanillabean
The reason that I never signed up for Chase Credit Journey is that the company will have more frequent access to my credit than before. Same thing with Discover:

"In light of the recent Equifax breach, Discover has started offering these SSN notifications for their cardholders. In the ToS for this, it states that by participating you are authorizing Discover to pull fresh reports daily.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfin..._free_service/

It’s the leverage side of it that I’m not so big on. It may be used against you when you apply.
By Discover, or other issuers? I'm not sure I understand your point about leverage.

FWIW, I've opened up at least a few cards since signing up for that service and haven't seen any AA from them.
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