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