After seeing the tweets, which have hundreds of comments underneath them, the New York Department of Financial Services announced that it would commence investigations into the credit card.

“The department will be conducting an investigation to determine whether New York law was violated and ensure all consumers are treated equally regardless of sex,” a spokesman for Linda Lacewell, the superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, said, as per Bloomberg. “Any algorithm, that intentionally or not results in discriminatory treatment of women or any other protected class of people violates New York law.”

In an interview, Hansson said that he did not believe that there was anything “nefarious” in either Apple or Goldman Sachs’ decision to give his wife a lower credit limit than him. (A Goldman spokesperson said: “Our credit decisions are based on a customer’s creditworthiness and not on factors like gender, race, age, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law.”)

But, as Hansson points out, if this is an algorithm making the decision about how much credit to give to men and women, then it’s a bad one. One that is predicated on outdated, sexist modes of thinking about women and money.

Apple Card: investigation launched after claims of sexist credit limits given to women