How Goldman Sachs Made More Than $1B with Credit Scores
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#2It's pretty terrifying how much information CreditKarma (TU-
and Equifax-backed,) Mint and such have, and what that turns into when it's shared and combined.
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#3The "web" link isn't working for me anymore, even in an incognito browser. Is it working for anyone else, or is there some other solution to read WSJ articles?
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#4Like, a solution that doesn't involve paying for journalism that you enjoy and find useful?
Re: How Goldman Sachs Made More Than $1B with Credit Scores
#5It's pretty terrifying how much information CreditKarma (TU- and Equifax-backed,) Mint and such have, and what that turns into when it's shared and combined.
True. Recently I logged into Mint for the first time in a few years, and was quite disturbed to realize they had been importing every debit or credit card transaction, and every student loan payment I made. They know my financial health better than my bank does ...
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#6Re: How Goldman Sachs Made More Than $1B with Credit Scores
#7Like, a solution that doesn't involve paying for journalism that you enjoy and find useful?
Cmon WSJ is expensive
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#8The "web" link isn't working for me anymore, even in an incognito browser. Is it working for anyone else, or is there some other solution to read WSJ articles?
This workaround using Facebook has been posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13621072
I haven't tried it myself, and it may no longer work. Might be worth giving it a try.
Re: How Goldman Sachs Made More Than $1B with Credit Scores
#9Like, a solution that doesn't involve paying for journalism that you enjoy and find useful?
For HN, the guideline is that submissions that have paywalls should have workarounds.
See "Are paywalls ok?" in the FAQ:
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#10This is the wild west of information rape I guess. Companies buy companies who buy other companies. As an average customer you just don't know who has what interests and where your info is getting used.
Even companies that started with noble goals like whatsapp ended up selling out to Facebook troves of private info.
The only way I see things change is a holocaust level fuck up because people think they have nothing to hide. I predict the next generation terrorism in the digital form