All your online payments, exposed
Slashdot reports that a provision has been slipped into the Senate mortgage bill, requiring all electronic payment processors to send detailed transaction data to the federal government. That’s right. All your eBay, Google Checkout, and Amazon transactions, all your credit card transactions, handed without a warrant to the feds for them to browse on. Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader and hardly a left-wing bomb-thrower, says “The privacy implications for America’s small businesses are breathtaking.”