EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance

Re:EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance by vmception on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:59AM (#25643580)

To put it more succinctly, no part of the Patriot Act would have flagged the 9/11 terrorists.

The Bank Secrecy Act and every expansion of it (like the Patriot Act) is just some data broker's pet project to fill some lucrative government contract.

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Re:EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:19AM (#25643690)

So much of this feels like someone invented a teleporter and now reactionaries are condemning teleporters because they can be used by smugglers to evade customs enforcement.

But the cat is out of the bag. The smugglers are going to keep using it regardless of what rules you impose on law biding citizens.

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Re:EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance by vmception on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:22AM (#25643706)

and otherwise law abiding citizens are the only ones ensnared by this.

most of the time its because they are paranoid about triggering government reporting requirements that they don't understand, and avoiding that is a crime too!

its always the people without money trying to act sketchy about $10,000 so they can avoid being seen as sketchy

they really do get thrown in prison for this

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