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Credit Karma opting everyone into sharing data with Intuit

21 pointsyolovoe8 comments

Credit Karma is now allowing Intuit (its parent company) to access Credit Karma data. This is an opt-out instead of an opt-in.

Email I received:

> Here at Credit Karma we're always looking for ways to improve your member experience and to ensure that our products and others offered by our parent company, Intuit Inc., work seamlessly together. That's why Credit Karma may allow Intuit access to certain data about your creditworthiness—such as your credit report information—to better personalize your experience, make recommendations and improve products across Intuit's platform.

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I run a medical software company. I think it is despicable that these companies co opt people into things making it look innocent.

As developers ALL OF YOU should force your employers to enforce strong security policies and stop this sharing of data where it can be hacked. People suffere for years in various ways from a hack and it is always because of idiots like companies sharing data and dropping security

In college I had to take an engineering ethics course.

"Don't build bridges that fail because people might die and you might be held responsible" pretty much sums up the courses content.

It pains me that the opportunity to push engineers away from surveillance capitalism (facebook/intuit etc.) was ignored. It equally pains me that companies will want you to devote your resources to money makers rather than security and those misaligned incentives will harm people. The 737 MAX was an equally pertinent exercise in understanding that management will cover their ass and push engineers under the bus, so you have to defend yourself from becoming a scapegoat in corrupt organizations, because when the plane crashes management will do everything possible to not be held accountable.

I just filed a CCPA request to have all my data deleted

You sent an email to CCPArequests@creditkarma.com?

Yup, and got an automated acknowledgment

Thanks for this, I had no idea. I’ve opted out now.

EU GDPR forbids this for any EU resident, with fines up to 4% of global revenue.

Presumably almost all affected customers are American.

Then why bring it up?

In China, corruption is illegal and punishable up to death. VW CEOs got no jail time for their actions in the EU by comparison

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