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Re:Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’ by drewg123 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @11:34AM (#15348831)
Which, no offense to our government, is just stupid. I'm much more concerned about ID theft than I am about terrorism, which is the supposed motivation for the know your customer stuff.
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Re:Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’ by scott_s on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:32PM (#15351445)
I think those laws were originally designed for "normal" crime, as what-to-do-with-illict-money is a common problem for anything resembling organized crime.
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