Santander To Track Customer Location Via Mobiles and Tablets

New submitter raburton writes: Santander (one of the biggest banks in Europe) slipped a little note on the corner of my latest statement saying they intend to start collecting "location or other data" from mobiles and tablets that their customers own, from 1st July 2015. There is no link to further information about the policy, or any suggestion you can opt out of it. The stated aim is of course to "prevent and detect fraud", but once they have the data (and they'll probably keep it for a long time) they, or anyone who can gain access to it, can do whatever they like with it. In this day and age I find it hard to take any assurances to the contrary very seriously. Is this kind of policy common practice with banks elsewhere?

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Re: Guess who's not getting an account with Santan

[Anonymous Coward]

And this is the reason why capitalism of today doesn't work.

It's the glory of the Free Market.

As soon as you become successful, you can afford to start buying up the competition. That can make you more successful, so that you can buy up other competitors who have been buying up their competition. Until finally the ultimate stage of the pyramid is that there is no competition, because no one starting from scratch can afford to compete against the massive economies of scale that only a very large competitor can afford.

All Hail The Glorious Free Market!