I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html [www.nytimes.com]
2019-11-04 17:06
Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
As of this summer, though, Sift does have a file on you, which it can produce upon request. I got mine, and I found it shocking: More than 400 pages long, it contained all the messages I’d ever sent to hosts on Airbnb; years of Yelp delivery orders; a log of every time I’d opened the Coinbase app on my iPhone. Many entries included detailed information about the device I used to do these things, including my IP address at the time.
source: HN