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Knowledge is power, and online banking provides up-to-the-minute information about the status of our bank accounts. If you've been using the Internet for any length of time, there's probably lots of information floating around out there about you, from your and your friends' social networking accounts, messages boards, blogs and other sites you've registered for and then forgotten. In my view, once we've mustered a level of anger commensurate with what's happening, we can then debate what to do next, which journals are overpriced and which aren't, what qualifies as "open access," and so on. They can then aggregate your personal data into a detailed profile and display it online in one convenient location. Many of these data brokers will display a good bit of information for free, and for a one-time, monthly or annual fee will provide lots of other information, including legal and criminal records. Or is the information discarded just as quickly as a paper bank statement?