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Goldman Sachs denies claims of Apple Card gender bias
crowley said:netrox said:crowley said:netrox said:GeorgeBMac said:I'm retired -- which means that my savings are high and my income is low. As a result GS gave me the lowest credit line of all my cards (about half).
Does that mean that they discriminate against retired people?
Creditors are not allowed to sue consumers for assets other than income on those who default on paying debts. It's a federal law. By abiding with law, banks avoid those who don't have enough income, regardless of how much assets they may have.
The fact that a lot of retirees have low income does not give you the right to whine about "age discrimination" - they don't care. They just want your income along with your history of credit. If retires are on low income, they are given low limits. That's a normal routine.
I am just so fed up with people who think they are somehow entitled to having more credit than they deserve and look for patterns such as age discrimination or gender discrimination when in reality, they're just seeing the reality that many women and many elderly people just don't have enough income. It is not age or gender that banks are using to "discriminate" but their individual incomes and their credit history to determine the credit line.
I get pretty fed up with people who have no significant problems whining about those who have it worse and dare to speak out about their difficulties.
The poster never said anything bad about age discrimination. They described it in facts, you turned into whining emotional drivel.
In the end the ability to sustain income is the issue that they measure. Will you pay me back in the future.
Sure, having assets has never been a good measure of ability to repay. Assets are the most difficult item to measure as an item to "pay". Sure, some is in cash, but lots of it are in retirement accounts, business assets, trusts etc. But, going out on a limb that you are a Warren supporter, you just want to assume it is easy to reach into the piggy bank and grab what you want out of someone else's pocket who has earned it.
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Law enforcement can get Ring doorbell video by just asking for it [u]
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Apple being sued because two-factor authentication on an iPhone or Mac takes too much time...
seanismorris said:I don’t think this warrants a lawsuit, but let me tell you a story.
1. I sent my iPhone 6s in for a battery replacement.
2. One day, I woke up and thought “I’m going to wipe my IPad clean”
- Background: I actually do this several times a year, usually after a significant OS upgrade. It also cleans of any games, junk, etc. that I don’t really need. I do this with the knowledge that I don’t use backup, but my contacts, calendar, shortcuts, passwords will sync back.
I think you can see my problem. My 6s has been gone 10 days at this point, and it took a full 2 weeks to get my phone back (bad Apple).
Anyways, my wiped iPad boots up but I run into 2FA to set up the iPad. I know everything I need to know (password to AppleID) but what I don’t have is my 6s. (Apple sends the code to the 6s and there’s no alternative).
I also don’t know my email password because it’s saved in Keychain.
At this point, I also don’t know what happened to my phone. It should be fixed (it was just a freakin battery) and as of the previous day I’d already reached the highest level of support. (There was no update on Apple’s site that they even received it). The nice support lady, wanted to call me with an update... no phone. So, we agreed on email... now no email.
Fortunately, I remembered that I removed the SIM card. So, I went to my T-mobile store and used a display phone to authenticate. Got my IPad up and running and found my iPhone was found/done and being shipped back.
Moral of the story is 2FA is great, but I really want it tied to something other than Idevice, like a YubiKey.
So, the lawsuit isn’t entirely frivolous. I also didn’t enable 2FA for my AppleID... I do want 2FA to log into my devices, but that’s not currently an option. I don’t care as much about my AppleID password it’s really really complex... as in come back in a few 100 million years (cracking it with today’s tech).
So while agreed that we need a better way, this method moves the bar above guessing passwords, and that is a good thing. -
Apple being sued because two-factor authentication on an iPhone or Mac takes too much time...
I traveled through Beijing a few years back, and maybe coincidentally a few days later I had a two factor authentication request from Guangzhou. They had my password, and fortunately I stopped them with the second factor. I for one find their method to be valuable and the right level of intrusiveness in the workflow. -
LCD 2018 'A12' iPhone expected to dominate sales, two dual-SIM models exclusive to China
I'm torn on Dual Sim. I do agree it seems crazy to have dual for some markets and not for others. But also, is it a differentiator in any market. At least the last few times I traveled abroad, i picked up a hot spot and used it for both Wifi calling and data. Super easy. But somehow I still want that capability.