Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism," the House Judiciary Committee revealed in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital Wednesday.
Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more.
farther into the story it mentions that it was Bank of America that handed over their records without being asked, which is yet another reminder that if you bank with BofA, you are terminally retarded.
If you don't use a local credit union as your bank by now, you are also retarded.
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Forgot a link, here is the archive of the original fox story https://archive.is/hQpeU
I don't think the perception is they're more secure, just they're smaller and have less staffs and resources to look into people's (political) financial activities and canceling customers because of Twitter outrages (mostly because they have very little online presence and interactions), also credit unions are supposed to be owned by the members who use their services, and not by faceless international corpos in a different country
Also their accounts are more from people in the same group. So if the Truckers Credit Union freezes some trucker accounts they're going out of business.