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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:
Great dissection of data brokers:
"Almost nothing about them can be independently checked — they trigger no adverse-action notices, no audits, no discovery. But the one time academics were allowed inside one...they found it predicting healthcare spending as a proxy for medical need. Black patients spend less — not because they are healthier but because they have less access to care — so at the same risk score they were significantly sicker"
https://nooneshappy.com/article/data-brokers-unregulated-forensic-analysis/