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Your Pizza Purchase Could Disqualify You for a Loan

July 24th, 2010 · No Comments

As a result of the mortgage meltdown, lenders are now hyper-cautious about who gets their money. A recent L.A. Times article, “Lenders’ Data Mining Goes Deep,” explains how banks use “data mining,” i.e., delving into seemingly insignificant information, available online, about their borrowers to make or change lending decisions.
An example that seems amusing, but isn’t, [...]

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