Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-00

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com> wrote:

>> > How many credit agencies would list half the population of spain?
>> 
>> How many insurance companies charge different amounts based on
>> neighborhood?
>
> That is actually a criminal violation of the credit acts. Some banks
> round here have paid very very large fines for that type of behavior.

I trust you've never priced automobile insurance.

There was recently a thread on misc.legal.moderated about someone
wanting to live in Brooklyn but buy insurance claiming Nassau.  Nobody
suggested that the rate differential was illegal.

> Sure it happens, but when it does a person listed can apply to the 
> courts for damages.

And get laughed out of them, too.

> Once I had an issue with my mobile provider.

That doesn't sound like an insurance company or a credit agency.

> There are curently lawsuits in progress about the use of location
> data as any form of input to a scoring scheme. 

"Redlining" is illegal; however, other uses aren't.

There are "lawsuits in progress" about lots of things.

Seth

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