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    Consumer Confidential: Equifax and FICO are getting into bed together. 'This should keep everyone up at night'

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Apr 09, 2019 4 minutes

    The headline on the press release was bland enough to attract little scrutiny: "Equifax and FICO introduce strategic partnership to deliver the Data Decisions Cloud."

    The contents of the announcement, meanwhile, gave the impression this was something good for consumers, albeit a bit on the techno-wonky side.

    "The new Data Decisions Cloud is an end-to-end data and analytics suite that addresses key needs across risk, marketing and fraud to enable financial institutions to meet the needs of consumers faster and more precisely than ever before," it proclaimed.

    "This broad strategic alignment will enable organizations to easily explore differentiated data, uncover deep new insights, build highly predictive models and rapidly deploy decisions into production

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