Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
July 12, 2013
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It’s not just governments that are using cellphone
location data to spy on citizens – banks are now getting in on the act
too – with Barclays announcing changes to its customer agreement that
will open the door to individuals being tracked in the name of
preventing fraud.
Barclays’ new customer agreement terms (PDF)
– set to come into force from October 9, 2013, will also permit the
bank to collect social networking data as well as using private
transaction information to bombard customers with unsolicited “services
and products”.
“The information we use will include location data
derived from any mobile device details you have given us. This helps us
protect you from fraud,” states the document.
This suggests that phone companies in Britain must have
given Barclays some kind of back door access to people’s private
cellphones in order to track their precise location, whether in real
time or after potential fraud has been reported.
All modern cellphones can be tracked down a location which is accurate within 50 meters. Police, governments and corporations already use such data to spy on individuals for both surveillance and data harvesting.
The changes also state that Barclays will track the
behavior of its customers via social media. The bank will also retain
“images of you or recordings of your voice” in addition to monitoring
“transactions on your account, to increase our understanding of services
and products that you may wish to use so we can send you information
about them.”
Read the full list of changes below.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Friday, July 12, 2013 at 10:44 am
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