The Secret Trust Scores Companies Use to Judge Us All

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If you're buying airplane tickets for other people, are you a scammer or a wealthy frequent flyer? A new kind of online score attempts to solve that puzzle

When you’re logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly into a single score, then evaluated along with other personal data to determine if you’re a malicious bot or potentially risky human.

Often, that’s done by a service called Sift, which is used by startups and established companies alike, including Instacart and LinkedIn, to help guard against credit-card and other forms of fraud. More than 16,000 signals inform the “Sift...

 

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