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peytontoday at 3:40 PM4 repliesview on HN

As a California resident I request to download my personal data from every service I can, and I’m constantly surprised. We each have scores for all kinds of things. The local power company keeps a “Green Ideology” score on me.


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newsofthedaytoday at 4:07 PM

When I see the word "score", it reminds me of the CCP social scoring system.

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johnisgoodtoday at 3:57 PM

It makes me curious what other scores (I would call them labels) there are.

wiethertoday at 3:48 PM

How is that even legal?

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dheeratoday at 4:28 PM

How do they know your ideology? Are they scraping your social media or running sentiment analysis on your customer service chats?

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