Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

A new law could force banks to spy on their poorest and most vulnerable customers, while letting the wealthy escape scot-free.  The Department for Work and Pensions could soon have the power to make secretive and invasive interventions into the lives and finances of 23 million people, as part of what the Labour party has described as the “biggest fraud crackdown in a generation”.  Labour’s public authorities (fraud, error and recovery) bill, cur…