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Maybe I used the wrong wording. There may be legitimate reasons for keeping it vague, because designing tamperproof public metrics for credit approval has huge risks involved, or they may be designed so conservatively that a lot actually qualifying people would now be unable to get a loan. I've personally been bitten by the latter despite making nearly six figures.

Similarily I've not really seen any sites which publish how their anti-spam filters work or what the treshold values are either for similar reasons. They're possible to figure out, but cost a lot more.

Maybe a better solution would be to somehow guarantee that they're consistent with their own rules, and regularly audited so that they're also compliant with the current law?



> designing tamperproof public metrics for credit approval has huge risks involved

The worst scenario that seems to fall out of this is "evolving arms race between bad actors and the metrics".

To me, that doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as the (current) lack of transparency.




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