Credit Agency Mines Facebook and Social Networks

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  1. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Look out! It appears credit agencies are hot to visit your Facebook or Twitter pages...if you live in Germany. Fortunately in the US there are laws preventing this, even though American credit agencies would love to see what you're doing on social networks. In fact, Experian has created a new credit score for people who don't have a credit score yet.

    This is another example of how your personal information is being hijacked and sold by businesses without your consent or knowledge.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...0119.html?utm_hp_ref=technology&ir=Technology
     
    skip, Jun 16, 2012
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  3. Scorpio Kenny

    Scorpio Kenny Church of the Good Earth - ArchBishop

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    My score is a 720. Why should I care?

    [meanwhile they are loading box car loads of unfortunate souls off to the death camps, and gassing them.]

    It doesn't affect me. I did nothing.

    [There are databases covering every man woman and child on the planet. Newborns with SS numbers and insurance and medical records building higher and higher, and photos of them with e-mails from their parents, and facebook info and pictures, before the age of four-months-old. People in the bush in Africa, who have no real existence, with complete computer dossiers.]

    Why should this concern me? I am a good German.
     
    Scorpio Kenny, Jun 17, 2012
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  5. Tyrsonswood

    Tyrsonswood Senior Moment Lifetime Supporter

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    I have no idea what my score is.... Does that make me a non-conformist?
     
    Tyrsonswood, Jun 17, 2012
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  7. rollingalong

    rollingalong Banned

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    if you complain about your child having the flu or whooping cough to the other fecesbook freakshows and forget to tell your health insurance provider?

    it can bite you in the ass 5 years later when you are fighting for coverage and they pull up your freakbook posts from 2007 about how sick your kid was

    ooops
     
    rollingalong, Jun 17, 2012
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  9. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    ignoring the privacy angle, i just don't see how this would benefit them. i can't think of anything on facebook that has anything to do with how likely someone is to pay their bills. unless they make a post like "hey, i just hid from the creditors again; i'll never pay that phone bill!" but i would think they would already have that information anyway.

    it seems like the whole operation would cost more to carry out than it would make in profits.
     
    I'minmyunderwear, Jun 17, 2012
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  11. rollingalong

    rollingalong Banned

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    i believe they look for key words...enough bad key words and they boot you from the loan line
     
    rollingalong, Jun 17, 2012
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  13. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    what sort of key words? i suppose i do tend to assume that people who say "babydaddy" are less likely to pay their bills, but i can't think of any other examples..
     
    I'minmyunderwear, Jun 17, 2012
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  15. Scorpio Kenny

    Scorpio Kenny Church of the Good Earth - ArchBishop

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    Somehow I just knew that this whole conversation would disintegrate rapidly. But I had no idea that it would be in an instantaneous flash.

    How could I have been so wrong?
    .
    :rofl:​
     
    Scorpio Kenny, Jun 17, 2012
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  17. zengizmo

    zengizmo Ignorant Slut HipForums Supporter

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    Germans are as gentle as flowers in the spring, sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
     
    zengizmo, Jun 18, 2012
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  19. jaydonc

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    This is funny but one thing i am sure that Nazi's got Shampain
     
    jaydonc, Nov 23, 2012
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