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Beyond the vault: Who's responsible for what banking sites share?

Banking sites leak financial data via tracking scripts despite consent

Tarun Mottlia

Via TechRadar

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Beyond the vault: Who's responsible for what banking sites share?
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Banks spend heavily to convince customers they are the most careful custodians of personal and financial data.

Our review of 14 financial-services websites across Europe and the US found otherwise: tracking and personalization scripts embedded in account-opening, mortgage, and loan-application flows sent contact details, financial intent, and device fingerprints to third parties, with 9 of the 14 sites doing so without a valid consent choice in place.

Head of Security Research at Jscrambler.

The failures fall into three patterns, and…

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