Re:The Cost of Dirty Money
by someguydave on Saturday February 09, 2019 @08:57PM
(#19125945)
Don't forget:
- Rationalizes the creation of a massive bureaucracy to control (and centralize) what beforehand was considered normal and local in scope.
- Rationalizes universal surveillance by unaccountable individuals in federal bureaucracies against the entire population. This can and has been abused in the case of bank disclosures required by anti-money laundering laws:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-arrests-treasury-...
(Note that the so-called "suspicious activity reports" she leaked were merely transactions that met some criteria like being above a threshold amount).
- Rationalizes the creation of a massive bureaucracy to control (and centralize) what beforehand was considered normal and local in scope.
- Rationalizes universal surveillance by unaccountable individuals in federal bureaucracies against the entire population. This can and has been abused in the case of bank disclosures required by anti-money laundering laws: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-arrests-treasury-...
(Note that the so-called "suspicious activity reports" she leaked were merely transactions that met some criteria like being above a threshold amount).