Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts

Re:Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking acco... by izzydata on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:19AM (#21525838)

Perhaps it is time to export all your emails and start forwarding any new emails to a backup email service. As well as backup any documents regularly to another service or personal drive.

As far as opening a google checking account goes I think I will be avoiding that one. Diversifying my critical online services might in some sense be a higher security risk, but safer from it all being wiped out in one go.

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Re:Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking acco... by jschwartzi on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:45PM (#21527784)

I'm working on this right now. Google's level of control over my ability to communicate online is really scary. If I lost my gmail account because of a perceived TOS violation I would lose access to many of my accounts, and have to go through a huge inconvenience of going to physical stores, calling during business hours and submitting ID, etc. to reset passwords.

If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta.

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Re:Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking acco... by xvector on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:52PM (#21529410)

> If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta.

100% agreed. It was cool at the time. Now Google has so fundamentally changed and I don’t trust them with my data anymore, but it is a Herculean task to move everything off Gmail. Literally hundreds of accounts are bound to my Gmail.

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Re:Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking acco... by tracker1 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:32AM (#21525983)

Agreed... been giving more and more time for thought on how I want to handle this myself.

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Re:Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking acco... by vorpalhex on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:28PM (#21526795)

I've already setup a domain in front of Protonmail so I have email under my control. My next step is to use an email client to fetch all my emails under IMAP so I have them outside of any cloud service.

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Re:Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking acco... by bad_user on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:44PM (#21527779)

Fastmail's import tool worked well for me and I have a big archive.

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