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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But does the corporate data collection factor into your FICO score? Unless there's some new scary development I'm not aware of, the FICO score is only based on the following: length and number of accounts, revolving utilization, if payments are on time, and the loans you have made (based on the size and frequency of them).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

FICO is just one of a multitude of scoring systems which impact people's lives in the US today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_credit_scoring_systems_in_the_United_States

You and your friends' social media activity, among numerous other things, can absolutely affect your ability to get a loan, a job, a rental contract, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If that holds true, then it really is no better than China's social credit system. Somebody needs to regulate this monster before it eats us all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

If you know so little about your own country's credit scoring system, you shouldn't speak so confidently about one on the other side of the world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Don't give them any ideas.