Fraud and Security Notice

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Mastercard aggregates personal information to build fraud and money laundering models

Mastercard lists aggregating some of your personal information to create rules-based or artificial intelligence models that identify past and potential future fraud or money laundering patterns. It says it offers the resulting advanced fraud prevention, anti money laundering and security features to financial institutions, merchants, customers and partners, and uses machine learning to analyze and identify fraudulent or illegal transactions.

Details
Who
Mastercard
What it does
Aggregates personal information to create rules-based or AI models; uses machine learning on transactions
Why
Offer fraud prevention, AML and security features to financial institutions, merchants, customers and partners

Supporting quotations

Aggregate some of your Personal Information to create rules-based or artificial intelligence models to identify past and potential future fraud or money laundering patterns to offer advanced fraud prevention, AML and security features to financial institutions, merchants, customers and partners.
We use machine learning to analyze and identify fraudulent or illegal transactions.
Legal Basis for Processing (where required under applicable law)

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Applies to 'some' of your personal information, in aggregated form.
  • The features built from the models are offered to financial institutions, merchants, customers and partners.

Not stated here

  • The notice does not say which personal information is aggregated.
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