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Both Amex and Chase regularly ask me to confirm my income. I wonder why they do that if the data is already available to them via Equifax.

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data can also be treated as signal. for example, if they know you are claiming a different income than is verifiable it signals something - good, bad, or indifferent - that they will use in algorithms.

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