"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com> wrote:
How many credit agencies would list half the population of spain?
How many insurance companies charge different amounts based on
neighborhood?
That is actually a criminal violation of the credit acts. Some banks
round here have paid very very large fines for that type of behavior.
I trust you've never priced automobile insurance.
There was recently a thread on misc.legal.moderated about someone
wanting to live in Brooklyn but buy insurance claiming Nassau. Nobody
suggested that the rate differential was illegal.
Sure it happens, but when it does a person listed can apply to the
courts for damages.
And get laughed out of them, too.
Once I had an issue with my mobile provider.
That doesn't sound like an insurance company or a credit agency.
There are curently lawsuits in progress about the use of location
data as any form of input to a scoring scheme.
"Redlining" is illegal; however, other uses aren't.
There are "lawsuits in progress" about lots of things.
Seth
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