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           I'm sorry, but I have to unfriend you—you're a credit risk
                                        
> In short: You could be denied a loan simply because your friends have
> defaulted on theirs. It’s the kind of digital redlining that critics of
> “big data” collection have been warning of for years. It could make
> Facebook a lot of money, and it could make the Web even less safe for poor
> people. And it could be just the beginning.
> 

Via Hacker News [1], “Facebook Wants to Redline Your Friends List - Pacific
Standard [2]”

This might warrant further investigation because it's just on the cusp of
believability that this could be coming soon. And if it is true (and I'm not
saying it is) I have to wonder what exactly the rationale is for denying a
loan just because you have a few (or many) deadbeat friends. Because like
follows like?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10169008
[2] http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/mo

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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