Not too long ago we had the story of the hospital buying patient credit card data and sure they could buy it directly from Master Card and Visa but there’s also the “middle man” who has already processed analytics about you, and in this case the price for th…
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We all know by now that a card or coupon is just one more way to track what you do and insurers these days can’t get enough relevant and non relevant data to analyze. For insurers, it works well to have these globs of data that they may not know what th…
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This is just taking this a little too far and we know when you let Quants go wild, they will go, and go and go and quantitate and create spurious correlations and sell and market you on the fact they they have value and they do not. If you read around the we…
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It’s been a while since I hit this one but since last time, of course, things are getting worse out there. With prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, …
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Well this is better than nothing and something to be addressed of course, but it’s about all you’re going to get from Richard Cordray as just one more afflicted by the Sebelius Syndrome. It’s the same old thing with a lawyer running the agency and yes lawyer…
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With prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, we used to have words like “trending” and number crunches used for a lot of what we saw, but today it’s the …
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You may or may not be aware of what’s going on with Big Data here but in China this is the deal, a Citizen Score that will determine everyone’s worth by using all sources of data available. So this is happening only in China? Wrong..we have Excess Scoring fo…
Continue ReadingThis is a pretty good article from Wired Magazine and it’s the truth and pretty much a lot of what I say here, so good to see others join in and make the case to try to start up a wake up call for consumers. What you don’t see does hurt your or hurts your ac…
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Here we go again, another lawyer ignorant of the fact that you have no index on data sellers and distributors in the US, so up comes another white flag as there’s no “data mechanics logic” here once again. They just keep falling as nobody will push Congress…
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Here we go again, the Big Brother push and of course could all these “motion” scores be combined and queried with medical claims and other information on hand at United? Sure they could and we now would have an entire new bunch of risk assessment scores to A…
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I know I sound like a broken record here but there’s good reason for this. I found this site on the web a while back and it appears to be growing and more data for sale is appearing. There are legitimate lists here for sale that we have all seen forever o…
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