Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time

Re:Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Re... by grandalf on Thursday December 02, 2010 @07:45PM (#1964336)

It would seem that this makes it significantly easier to stay under the radar -- simply set up your credit cards to suggest a very normal life and then use cash for any illicit activities.

And, if a group of people (such as a terrorist cell) wanted to, it would be easy to deliberately create a paper trail to mislead authorities.

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Re:Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Re... by jrockway on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:48AM (#1964917)

You get promoted based on how many cases you solve, not how many difficult cases you solve. If you are smarter than the average criminal, you probably stand a less-than-average chance of being caught.

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Re:Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Re... by sielskr on Friday December 03, 2010 @03:16AM (#1965168)

because the authorities have no control over the supply of cash, would never try to outlaw cash, or never require banks to report the withdrawal or deposit of cash.

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Re:Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Re... by grandalf on Friday December 03, 2010 @11:21AM (#1966379)

At the levels necessary to do terrorist acts, cash is essentially unmonitored.

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