Data Leak Reveals Bank of America Spying on Internetselfnews Post The group says that Bank of America employed private IT firms such as TEKsystems to spy on hacker forums, but also social media networks. Special software was created to use keywords to troll the Internet in order to judge sentiment about BoA among other things. According to the website of TEKsystems, Slightly concerning to anyone who values their privacy and the security of their data, as the video below highlights: Bank of America is proving once again to be among the very worst in a pile of sleazy big banks. They have been implicated inloan modificationandforeclosure fraud, they have admitted tofraud in the municipal bond derivatives market, and support of acashless society. This latest revelation of the extent to which Bank of America has gone to cast a wide net of (haphazard) spying over the Web should cause anyone who remains a customer to consider alternative options. One should especially question the safety of their personal data kept under the watch of Bank of America and other large corporations, as clearly the data they are collecting is open to anyone who knows where to look. Given the newCybersecurity Executive Ordersigned by Obama that gives carte blanche for corporations to openly obtain and share data in the name of national security, this type of activity should only escalate. Other sources: Read other articles by selfnews Post Here 