Could Facebook Activity Affect Your Credit Score?

As Facebook users worry about their privacy with every change the site introduces, members in Germany are now also concerned about how Facebook activity could affect their credit scores.

As Facebook users worry about their privacy with every change the site introduces, members in Germany are now also concerned about how Facebook activity could affect their credit scores.

German news site Spiegel reported that the country’s biggest credit agency, SCHUFA. planned to include information from Facebook and other social networking sites in its analysis of citizens’ credit reports. SCHUFA released a short statement, noting, “The goal of the project is to analyze and research Web data.”

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