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Alex Lintner

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Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Yeah, and that's the objective.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

You need the same data for that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And both sides need to see it because the data is the objective truth.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And then the consumer can make a decision and the lender can make a decision if you're talking about financial services in particular, which your example did.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

It's a core element.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

I think you're overemphasizing the financial information.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Financial services is one of the sectors, like I said earlier, we have a lot of other information that is useful, that has nothing to do with sort of the core lending information that we have, the history of people's lending behaviors.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And the other information is just as useful.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So if you look at the automotive industry,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Vertical, for example, we have an equivalent to most people know Carfax.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

We have something called AutoCheck.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

It has vehicle history, ownership history, maintenance and repair history, accident history.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So there is a lot of other information that is actually relevant for these decisions.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

It's not only the financial information that we have about people.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And by the way, when people say financial information, often it's interpreted as

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

We have account numbers, et cetera.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So we do need account numbers to match the accounts to people, but it never goes out.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And it's double encrypted, so super protected.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

We don't use any of that information for any of the services that we provide, except for the pinning so that we can match it to a person.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

That sounds like fun.