How often do you call your mother?

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Here's an interesting one:


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/19/data-collection-leads-to-discrimination-and-self-censorship-mps-told


Quote: "Companies routinely derive data from other data, such as determining how often someone calls their mother to calculate their credit-worthiness."


Bet you didn't know that!

boo_star

I took that to be an illustration of companies inferring data from other data they collected rather than an example of what companies are actually doing.

elsien

My first thought from your title was "how often do I call her what?"

[Deleted User]

Rubbish.
Absolute rubbish.

[Deleted User]

boo_star wrote: »

I took that to be an illustration of companies inferring data from other data they collected rather than an example of what companies are actually doing.

Not sure. The way it's written suggests that Privacy International have it as a real example, not a hypothetical one.

boo_star

johnsmith1890 wrote: »

Not sure. The way it's written suggests that Privacy International have it as a real example, not a hypothetical one.

It is written a little ambiguously. Even if it's real I can't see it being a widespread practice.

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boo_star wrote: »

It is written a little ambiguously. Even if it's real I can't see it being a widespread practice.

Yes, I cannot imagine how even the biggest privacy busting organisations could carry out such an intrusion, but who knows.