This morning our paper had a long and interesting article from Charles Duhigg, business reporter for the NY Times. He wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine on all the data mining done by/for credit card companies. So, for example, someone who charges felt pads for chair legs or a carbon monoxide detector is far more likely to pay his credit card bill than someone who charges a chrome skull car accessory.
Avoiding for the moment the privacy or ethics issues ...
Wouldn't this data also work to determine who's most likely to pay their mortgage payments? Could doing this lower the interest rate and payments for those most likely to pay their bills?
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