Re:Money-Laundering Practices in the Online Scam Industry
by potato3732842 on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:56PM
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It's probably only a matter of time until the SC extends "papers and effects" to mean "your stuff on other people's hard drives" in some capacity. That will probably trigger a bunch of re-litigation around the financial side of things though I have no idea what the consequences would be.
Re:Money-Laundering Practices in the Online Scam Industry
by ajross on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:09PM
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It... already does. You can get a warrant for whatever evidence you need already, no need for any new legislation. The constitutional requirement is for judicial supervision, and that's been pretty solid (not perfect, but good) for almost three centuries now.
I'm just saying that there is no "right to financial privacy" anywhere. You have a general right to privacy as granted by the fourth amendment. And courts take that seriously. But it's not absolute and the government is allowed to unmask things for law enforcement.
So, obviously people know this, but it's important to spell out:
There is an explicit protection for keeping and bearing arms in the constitution. No such language exists for "financial privacy", in fact the fourth amendment explicitly says the government can search and investigate citizens' property, just that they have to get a warrant based on probable cause.