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> Plus I don't agree with a company keeping tabs on my financial transactions and then profiting from that data on my behalf. You'll have that near equally as
by w0m 9y ago
> Plus I don't agree with a company keeping tabs on my financial transactions and then profiting from that data on my behalf.
You'll have that near equally as long as you do non-cash transactions unless you use your debit card from an equally privacy conscious institution (maybe a small town credit union? Until they got bought at least..).
Personally I've just accepted that my boring life is known to everyone and try and get the perks I can out of it; free trip once a year being about what I've managed to extract without much effort.
- vanderZwan 9y agoThat still does not address the "I don't agree with how they are ran"-concern. There sadly is no US version of the Fair Finance Guide yet, but in the countries where it does exist it is a pretty good guideline for finding banks that align with your moral interests: https://fairfinanceguide.org/ https://fairfinanceguide.org/ The Dutch one is the first version, and as a result also the most elaborate: https://eerlijkegeldwijzer.nl/bankwijzer/themas/ https://eerlijkegeldwijzer.nl/bankwijzer/themas/
- tracker1 9y agoDoesn't matter where the debit card is issued, the relevant data still goes over the same network(s), mostly managed by Bank of America Corp...