What makes this so staggering is that publication has taken place in France, a country renowned for its strict privacy laws.

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Due to strict rules entitling consumers to financial privacy, though, banks are limited in the secondary use of that data.

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Privacy laws are somewhat more common in Latin America, where countries such as Argentina and Chile boast relatively strict European-style regimes.

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