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Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you.
Chron ^ | 07/31/2020

Posted on 08/01/2020 3:37:29 PM PDT by Kevin in California

Operating in the shadows of the online marketplace, specialized tech companies you've likely never heard of are tapping vast troves of our personal data to generate secret "surveillance scores" - digital mug shots of millions of Americans - that supposedly predict our future behavior. The firms sell their scoring services to major businesses across the U.S. economy.

People with low scores can suffer harsh consequences. CoreLogic and TransUnion say that scores they peddle to landlords can predict whether a potential tenant will pay the rent on time, be able to "absorb rent increases," or break a lease. Large employers use HireVue, a firm that generates an "employability" score about candidates by analyzing "tens of thousands of factors," including a person's facial expressions and voice intonations. Other employers use Cornerstone's score, which considers where a job prospect lives and which web browser they use to judge how successful they will be at a job.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother
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To: dhs12345

I get around it all by “identifying” as a lumber sexual.

Me: “no officer, that’s not an ax handle. Thats my wife. And no, I wasn’t brandishing a weapon, I was introducing those fine folk to my ol’ lady. She’s very social like that.”


41 posted on 08/01/2020 5:24:13 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

Lol.


42 posted on 08/01/2020 5:36:09 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Jim W N

When Credit reporting agencies start reporting social credit scores we’re all F’d.


43 posted on 08/01/2020 5:39:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: fso301

Google, Facebook and Twitter helped me whittle down piles of resumes in short order.


44 posted on 08/01/2020 5:40:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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TransUnion runs one of the major rental databases in the US. Not subject to standard consumer credit protection laws. You bet a company like this can keep people homeless.

This is especially important with the wave of expected evictions. Forbidden to rent based on a fuzzy logic TransUnion score, where will people rent?

When I moved back to the US after 20 years, my FICO score was zeroed out. Many complexes I applied for wanted me to pay 6 months rent to move in or get a rental co-signer or a guaranteed employment contract for 1 year. Hell, even most Craigslisters use TransUnion or other rental database companies.


45 posted on 08/01/2020 5:45:14 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: fso301

Most use Checkr, which is very similar.


46 posted on 08/01/2020 5:46:57 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Kevin in California

Glad you can’t “discriminate” in this country based on race, sexual orientation, sex, national origin, age or religion.


47 posted on 08/01/2020 7:02:17 PM PDT by Red6
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To: DesertRhino
That's why I said, the marketplace FREE FROM GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE.

The problem is unconstitutional government NOT private enterprise.

48 posted on 08/01/2020 7:16:21 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Kevin in California

This is an exact Black Mirror episode. Time to roll back technology.


49 posted on 08/01/2020 7:25:01 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Kevin in California

Make it a point to do some off the wall and out of character things to screw with them. I leave my phone in a room with a TV tuned to Univision so they waste time marketing to me in Spanish.

It’s like lying to pollsters.


52 posted on 08/02/2020 4:17:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Phillyred

As an Indian techie guy once told me, “too much of technology”.


53 posted on 08/02/2020 4:18:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: dhs12345

be sure to join the NAACP...just to screw with ‘em....


54 posted on 08/02/2020 4:22:24 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Wiser words were never spoken.


55 posted on 08/02/2020 6:18:37 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: mo

Lol. They’d be shocked when I show up to their meeting.


56 posted on 08/02/2020 7:55:57 AM PDT by dhs12345
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