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by Cthulhu_ 4239 days ago
^. Simplest use case I can imagine for big data analysis on financial transactions, detect sudden spikes in income (esp. from different sources) and expenses, flag for further investigation. I'm sure the tax services do this. Banks too, to detect mules and other suspicious activity (repeated transactions of $999 to a different account are suspicious already imo).