The Federal Trade Commission issued orders to eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers’ characteristics and behavior.

After reading such news I have an obvious question. Does anyone know a PayPal-like service, that allows to hide the destination of my transactions from Mastercard / bank, but with a good privacy policy? Or how else can I restrict the usage of my financial data by mastercard or bank?

  • pound_heap@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    There is Privacy.com that gives you virtual cards to use for purchases. Money go from your bank account to them. Destination is visible on payment description still, but it may fool bank’s algorithm. Or you can get paid plan from Privacy.com and mask destination completely.

    • Sem@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      That is what I need! Unfortunately, it is for US only… Is there, maybe, something similar in European region?

      • pound_heap@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        Oh, sorry, I’ve assumed that you are in US since you posted an article about FTC.

        I don’t know if there is a similar service in Europe. I think you could get a virtual card linked to a crypto wallet, but this obviously comes with downsides