The counter-culture has truely begun when someone figures out how they can get back at their credit card company through digital banking:
Don Rogers wanted to make a statement. A 32-foot credit card statement, to be precise, one he hopes will help him win a long-simmering privacy feud with his bank and at the same time nab a place in the Guinness Book of Records. The 62-year-old retired city councillor from Kingston, Ont., paid his $230 Visa bill last month in 985 instalments, often pennies at a time, to protest against the fact that his bank outsourced some of its credit card processing to a U.S. company. Mr. Rogers said he asked Vancouver-based Citizens Bank of Canada several times to end the practice, because U.S. authorities could potentially gain access to his personal information under the wide-ranging Patriot Act, a piece of legislation designed to crack down on terrorism. When the bank refused to take action, he decided to employ what he describes as his "creative solution" -- paying down his Visa in tiny increments over the Internet and generating a statement that was 35 pages long and a half-inch thick.So will they ban payments of under a dollar in retaliation?
