Barclays’ Busted For Stealing, Selling Confidential Financial Data Of Thousands Of Clients
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
02/09/2014
In recent months, the attention of the public has been consumed by concerns over private data abuse by such public spy agencies as the NSA, as well as what personal financial information may have been intercepted by rogue hacker black hats who in the past two months have been blamed for millions in credit card privacy breaches. However, so far there have been two major loose ends in the story of personal data collection (and abuse): just how web search browsers and cookie-based advertising companies collect everything there is to know about the particular interests and desires of any given individual, and just as importantly, how banks abuse client confidentiality by taking the secret financial data of their clients less than seriously. Today, one of these loose ends got some much needed public exposur.
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