B OF A stops processing Wikileaks payments..Wikileaks tweets

xiamiam

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Sat Dec-18-10 03:49 PM
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B OF A stops processing Wikileaks payments..Wikileaks tweets

Bank of America announced it will stop handling transactions for WikiLeaks, the controversial non-profit group that has published secret government data and communications.

In a tense response posted on Twitter late last night WikiLeaks urged customers to stop doing business with the bank and suggested the consumers could find safer places to put their money. See WikiLeaks' Twitter response below:

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/18/bank-of-america-will-stop_n_798605.html

Is it even legal for them to do this?

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Poll_Blind

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Sat Dec-18-10 04:02 PM
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1. Legal to do, probably, but announcing they're doing it may be against a law.

I'm not 100% on that, though. Involves sharing a customer's information and privacy laws. However, I'm not even sure if BoA was already processing payments for WL.

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