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A person dressed as the Monopoly man, complete with a white mustache, top hat and monocle, infiltrated the Senate hearing on the massive Equifax data breach to expertly troll the company on Wednesday. 

 

The protester, Amanda Werner, was reportedly part of a group attempting to draw attention to forced arbitration clauses used across the business world, that push consumers and workers into private negotiations rather than courts when disputes arise. Equifax attempted to trick consumers into forced arbitration after the data breach by hiding an arbitration clause in the terms of use of a tool that supposedly allowed user to check if their data had become available. 

 

Protesters in Senate hearings have faced intense backlash as of late. After Desiree Fairooz was escorted out of a Code Pink protest of Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing for simply laughing, she has faced numerous charges from the Justice Department. The threat appears to have forced protesters to become more creative with their disruptions.

 

<p>Benjamin Goggin is the News Editor at Digg.&nbsp;</p>

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