Reporting and comments by Mathew Carr
Feb. 27-28, 2024 — HSBC, the huge global bank known partly for its corruption, has began preventing users from recording their phone screens while using its app, limiting its accountability.
Blocking the recordings was needed “for security reasons,” the bank said in its warning.
I contend one of those reasons is the bank’s own existential security — the risk it loses its banking licence in the UK because of its poor treatment of customers, that it gets broken up by regulators because it has grown too large, or, more likely, receives further fines for wrongdoing.
I guess there is some risk private information can get spread around if people take videos and screen shots, yet given phones can be hacked, this data loss can also happen real time. I contend the “security measure” has been developed as a way to reduce the bank’s accountability.
I’ve been trying to get HSBC to repay money being taken from my accounts amid four years of litigation with Bloomberg LP. Bloomberg recommended I join HSBC when I arrived in England on transfer from Australia in 2002. I was fired by Bloomberg in 2020.
After I was fired, I helped HSBC deal with fraudsters targeting its now-closed Bethnal Green branch. Needless to say I never got thanks.
HSBC has already paid me and my wider family some compensation for its bad behavior.
A representative of the bank called me Tuesday, apparently to gaslight me about me not jumping through hoops correctly after HSBC made multiple mistakes.
For instance, it is so far refusing to repay these payments / thefts from my account from 2022.
Fernvale Community Club in Singapore is fernvale cc in the screenshot below; the amounts given are in Great British Pounds, in exchange from Singapore Dollars
I managed to take the screenshot above from the HSBC chat.
Would HSBC and Apple (I have an Apple phone) need to be in cahoots to limit screen recordings in this way? What international law governs this situation, if any? What law in the UK? Are global companies simply out of control?
I believe I earlier recorded a screen video recording of the Fernvale transaction dialogue in the HSBC app chat. That recording appears to have been deleted from my phone …both Apple photos and Google photos, where I back things up.
One of the many problems with 2024 and the prevalence of the non-paper (virtual) world is …we’ve handed control over what happened in history to the 0.1%…unless you print everything out that you do online, the tech giants can change history by hacking your screen shots/recordings …that’s if you are even allowed to take them in the first place.
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