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That 1-2% is what they pay you for all your data. Credit cards are a key component of data brokers.
by duncan_idaho 4y ago
That 1-2% is what they pay you for all your data. Credit cards are a key component of data brokers.
- throwaway193948 4y agocompared to all the other data collected about me with no benefit to myself that seems like an ok deal
- bombcar 4y agoThe 1-2% is what they pay you for helping strong-arm the merchant into giving them 3%.
- astrange 4y agoIt's a refund on the interchange fee from not doing chargebacks and paying your bills on time. Your data is not interesting or valuable, that's your ego talking.
- kube-system 4y agoData brokering is a 200 billion dollar industry. Some individual data brokers say they have data on half of all transactions in the US, so it's safe to say that your transactions are more likely to be sold than not. Nobody cares about your data (unless you're high profile), but -- for example -- hedge funds and the like will spend big bucks to get aggregate sales data before this quarter's financial reports are written.