Method, system and computer program product for processing social data

A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method as above, said method comprising the following operations:

• assembling data relevant to assessing a risk, from multiple sources, wherein at least one of the sources comprises social data;
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• combining said data including comparing corresponding data provided by more than one of the multiple sources, including identifying discrepancies in at least one characteristic (e.g. age or location) of at least one individual or entity, as indicated by plural ones of said multiple sources.

A processor configured, for each of a multiplicity of entities, to provide plural evaluations of an individual characteristic of an individual entity from among said multiplicity, the evaluations being respectively based on plural data items accessed from at least one digital data source, to compare the evaluations and to generate, for said individual characteristic and entity, at least one discrepancy score accordingly;

• and to provide the at least one discrepancy score as an input to at least one decision making algorithm.