Who should own personal financial data?

What’s happening? Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is moving toward rule making to strengthen consumer access to their financial data.

Why is this important? Sometimes you need to share your financial information, to use things like Quicken’s automatic features or auto payments.

How will this be important? Big banks and big financial companies want to control personal financial data. It’s the new forefront of privacy rights.

The Hill | Consumers — not banks — should control access to personal financial data