UNEQUAL CREDIT: Want your credit report? Starting...

UNEQUAL CREDIT: Want your credit report? Starting next year, TRW Inc. of Orange will give a free report each year to anyone who asks (D1). . . . Being consumer friendly is the latest trend in the giant credit reporting industry, though so far the steps are halting. TRW refuses, for instance, to match a rival’s decision to stop selling information from consumer credit files to junk mailers. “If only we can get each of the companies to do what their competitors do,” laments privacy expert Robert Ellis Smith.