Here's the latest intrusion into your personal finances: Banks scan your online debit/credit card statements looking for purchases from participating merchants and include links to the company's coupons and special offers.

Creepy.

This has apparently been around for a while, but I guess I haven't heard about it because we rarely if ever use online statements or any other online banking services at all unless you count PayPal.

Yet another example of consumer data mining that also highlights the low barriers to entry for competitors of Groupon and other deal programs.