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on Monday February 24 2014, @05:00PM
from the don't-click-ok-to-accept-the-eula dept.
from the don't-click-ok-to-accept-the-eula dept.
andrew writes:
"Alternet.org reports recent updates to terms of conditions for Bank of Americas cell phone app and Capital Ones new credit card contract have given banks unsettling new abilities. These privileges include the authority to access to your phone microphone and camera or even showing up at your workplace and home unannounced at any time.
From the the article:
We're witnessing a new era of fascism, where corporations are creating intrusive and over-bearing terms and conditions that customers click to agree to without even reading.
As a result, corporations in America have acquired king-like power, while we're the poor serfs that must abide by their every rule or else."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday February 24 2014, @09:52PM
That is, if I had an account at Bank of America, I could use a Wells Fargo ATM to withdraw cash from my Bank of America account, and there was no charge to me.
Nowadays, I would pay Wells Fargo as much as three dollars per withdrawal. Quite often BofA would charge me too.
Automated Teller Machines were ALL free of charge for quite a long time, seeing as how they enabled live, human tellers to quit their jobs of dreary servitude to devote themselves to lives of leisure and creative pursuits.
But then some bank got the bright idea to charge $1.50 or so to withdraw cash from accounts at other banks. Almost overnight, all the banks followed suit.
Now it is quite common even for banks to limit the number of withdrawals from their own ATMs. Go over that monthly limit and you start paying fees.
I have a major product announcement [warplife.com] coming 5:01 PM 2014-03-21 EST.