On Monday, 8 August 2022 17:34:40 BST Laurence Perkins wrote: > They have no reason to bother. At least not in the USA. US courts ruled > decades ago that as soon as you give information to a third party you lose > all expectation of privacy (yes, even if the third party promised privacy > in the contract you have with them.) > Phone voice data and U.S. Mail are specifically protected legally, as are > privileged communications with a lawyer, priest, or doctor (although that > last category is so riddled with exceptions as to barely count). > Otherwise, anybody you do any business with at all can be forced to give up > any and all records they have about you, no warrant required, and can be > ordered not to tell you it's been done. > So government level actors spying on your banking just go to the bank. And > they've been getting more nosey in recent years. Last I heard, any > transaction over $600 gets automatically reported to them, and they keep > talking about lowering that threshold.
Thank goodness I don't live in the good ol' US of A. The land of the free? Hm... -- Regards, Peter.
