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Obama Action On “Financial Privacy” Will Have Questionable Impact On Average Americans

Mar 28th, 2013 | By
Obama Action On “Financial Privacy” Will Have Questionable Impact On Average Americans

Advocates of “civil liberties” are concerned because Reuters reported that the Obama administration is planning to give U.S. spy agencies full access to financial data about U.S. bank accounts. The problem with these concerns is that the spy agencies already have access to that data. All the administration is trying to do is make it official. As it so often happens, civil liberties advocates are ignoring massive holes in the Constitutional protections on privacy in the United States. No Privacy for Foreign Transactions The first is that the protections of the U.S. Constitution do not
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Protect Yourself While Mobile Banking

Jul 21st, 2012 | By
Protect Yourself While Mobile Banking

Remember when mobile banking meant visiting your local branch? Today it means being able to make balance inquiries, deposits, and account transfers with just a few taps on your smartphone. And that’s just the beginning. “The scope of mobile banking has clearly expanded over the last eighteen months,” said Sonia Lalli, a mobile banking analyst at Juniper Research, “particularly because of the expanded and more intelligent capabilities offered by the smartphone, as well as a greater range of affordable non-iPhone devices.” However, transferring such sensitive data over the airwaves involves risk, and you should heed
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Protecting Our Elderly From Scammers

Oct 7th, 2011 | By
Protecting Our Elderly From Scammers

It is difficult to see our parents advancing in age. The same two people who raised you and did their best to provide a comfortable home, a moral and spiritual foundation, a good education, and a loving environment are now getting up there. And whether they and you admit it or not, the tables are turned and now they need you. Although a natural process, they are no longer as physically (and sometimes mentally) agile as they once were, and right before your eyes they change from the mom and dad who were once strong
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