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In February 2024, U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) posted a tweet about Socure and sent a letter to the company.
In his tweet, Rep. Torres said that “[t]he right to privacy is worth defending. I am on a mission to bring greater transparency and accountability to data brokers. The secrecy of data brokers like Socure poses a threat to data privacy.”
In his letter to the company, Torres asked:
- How do you test your fraud prediction models for bias, and do your models demonstrate any form of bias for communities regardless of race, gender, location, income, or sexual identity?
- Socure publicizes that it has “thousands of data sources” – what are those data sources and how do they vary across user demographics?
- How do you verify people who aren’t in records, are unbanked, and don’t participate in social media? Please provide the specific types of data you utilize to verify these individuals.
- Do you purchase data on individuals from other data brokers or state agencies, like DMVs?
- Does Socure scrape social media profiles as part of its data collection? If so, are users made aware? Do you retain social media data once a user deletes it from their account? How do you protect against fraudulent or fake information placed on social media about a real person?