Now that I have a working laptop, I'm finding that I rarely use the office desktop. The problem with this is that I use Microsoft Money, which is only useful on a single machine and has severe limitations with online access of your personal finance information. Since 99% of my online time is on the laptop, I'd like to have this information where ever I am. So, I've been doing some research into a lot of the new online tools, mainly finding what's available.
The obvious concerns are privacy and identity theft. Most promise privacy and guarantee your data will not be sold, which might be true today, but what about tomorrow? The most intrusive use of your data is targeted ads based on your spending habits. Identity theft is a risk whenever you transmit financial data into the interwebs. Limiting this behavior certainly decreases the risk, but then you shouldn't use an online financial site. Also, if you decide to stop using one of these services, there's probably no way to completely delete your information from their database.
With that, here is a list of probable sites I'll be looking into.
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