Google is getting into banking with the search giant set to offer checking accounts next year

CNBC ^ | November 13, 2019 | Jeff Cox

[C19fan]

Google will offer checking accounts next year as it partners with financial institutions including Citigroup, representing Big Tech’s boldest move yet into consumer banking.

Most previous efforts have focused on credit cards and payment platforms.

As part of a project code-named Cache, the company will become the latest Silicon Valley leader to try its hand at the banking space, the Wall Street Journal reported. Previous attempts by Apple and Facebook faced obstacles, with consumers growing increasingly skeptical over providing large technology companies with their personal information.

[C19fan]

Hell no.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . consumers growing increasingly skeptical over providing large technology companies with their personal information.

Why do you suppose that is? < / sarcasm >

[CIB-173RDABN]

Google, the company that makes money by mining your personal information wants you to supply even more personal information. No, I don’t think so.

[Wuli]

More personal data to store and sell, which is it’s real business - big brother to the big corporations and their advertisers, while you are just a commodity to be sold, bought and bartered over.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Me to Google — Hey I got money in my account why did you stop payment at the gun shop?

Google - We don’t think you should own a gun so we prevented you from buying one.

/s

[I want the USA back]

Google, which sees our searches and currently discriminates against anyone who doesn’t fully accept the total leftist agenda.
They aren’t getting my checking account.

[mass55th]

I’m sure there’s enough dumb people out there to use them.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I’m sure there’s enough dumb people out there to use them.
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I am sure you are correct.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They are just going to start buying banks.

Problem solved.

[MV=PY]

[Erik Latranyi]

Yes, just as some would give Apple or Microsoft all their information.

[Pearls Before Swine]

No, but slightly better that Google tries it than Facebook!

[Sam Gamgee]

I am shocked how many people have no problem with Google Home spying on them in their own home.

[IronJack]

I would sooner turn over access to my checking account to Hillary Clinton.

[Obadiah]

Is Google the anti-Christ or merely the anti-Christ’s main control tool?

[Obadiah]

Why did you put a sarcasm switch on your comment?

[TexasGunLover]

I am shocked how many people have no problem with Google Home spying on them in their own home.

I thought the same thing about people who had a land line, a mid-90's cable box, a cell phone, or a smartphone, and then I realized that everyone was under surveillance for decades whether they thought they were or not, and stopped worrying about it.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Because some would take my comments serious and think I had an account with google.

[Retvet]

Google is already to big of a monopoly. It should be down sized not expanded!

[TexasGunLover]

Because some would take my comments serious and think I had an account with google.

You do, you just don't know it. And, you're contributing to it by just posting here.