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Alex Lintner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
616 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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

What you just said is we're one of the largest data companies in the world.

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

And therefore, we got a lot of information.

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

And bad guys like information.

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

So to keep it secure, you need to have a, I'm going to call it a bulletproof setup from front to back of every application.

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

Most people talk only about encryption, but it goes way beyond that.

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

It goes to access rights.

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

I named that consent earlier.

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

It goes to how do you store the information.

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

You can shard it, which I really like.

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

Break it up.

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

So when people find Eli's information, they find maybe only...

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

your first name, not your last name.

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

They maybe find your street address stored somewhere else and your account information stored again in another place.

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

In other words, if you break it up into 25 shards, they'd have to break 25 encryption keys, know how to pin it back together to one individual in order to really understand Nilay.

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

That's complicated.

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

So the game is we need to have security systems that stay ahead of the bad guy.

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

And we need to have at the core of our mission, the core of our purpose as a company, that every employee needs to act to a purpose that says what I now say for the third time, keep privacy, consent, and security at the center of everything we do.

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

I have two answers to that.

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

So the first answer is privacy laws are such that you can opt out anytime.

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

So if you, Nila, don't want your information stored, you can do that.