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On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 00:35:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:04:53 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > So government level actors spying on your banking just go to the |
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> > > bank. And they've been getting more nosey in recent years. Last I |
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> > > heard, any transaction over $600 gets automatically reported to them, |
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> > > and they keep talking about lowering that threshold. |
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> > Thank goodness I don't live in the good ol' US of A. The land of the |
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> > free? Hm... |
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> We still have the protections introduced by the EU. Let's hope the |
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> government aren't about to tear them up... oh, they are. |
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My understanding is the UK (and EU) are all the same if not worse in this |
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respect. Law stipulated protections on data privacy mostly apply to private |
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companies, but do not exclude access to your data by governments. As far as I |
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recall there's not even a need to seek approval by a judge to do so anymore, |
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although there will be some rudimentary 'supervision' of operatives by more |
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senior ... operatives. Ha! |
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It's probably safer to assume Internet and privacy are effectively quite |
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orthogonal. |
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