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I don't know about you all, but I'm getting effort from my Senators.

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Incorrect. PATRIOT Act + "Metadata"

That gives them the justification to sweep up records and use Metadata to see if it fits signatures. Nothing different than the whole Metadata collection unveiled by Snowden.

You're thinking about individual cases, but if they tie it to homeland security and terrorism, gives them free reign for the most part

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However they are allowed to buy the data from private firms, just like they are buying phone records or movement profiles when they can't get a warrant.

Typical Reddit downvoting correct information. Jews4beer is right, even if the username seems wrong.

The Patriot Act did indeed expire in 2020 and no longer exists. Claiming that something is possible to do today because of the Patriot Act is therefore wrong. Patriot Act is dead.

Most of the capabilities got rolled into the USA Freedom Act

That's bc they rolled all of the abilities of the Patriot Act to the US Freedom Act and then virtue signaled on killing the Patriot Act like they were doing something good for us.

Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was...

gathering potential financial crime information?

Yet the lasting damage it's done remains with us to this day.

Pay no attention to the man with the server hidden behind a curtain!!

because they can but also it should be a concern because a lot of them were involved with jan 6th or other qultist movements.

Cuz they’re obedient drones working for a shell of a government who has been owned by the central banks since we privatized the federal reserve.

Doesn’t mean they should be allowed.

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They’ll figure out what to do with the information later.

We are all on someone's list and it is just a matter of time.

They will most likely use AI driven software to analyze the data and find ‘anomalies’

Yup, I am pretty certain they want the dataset so they can train an AI on records tied to known illegal activities (or just suspected nefarious behavior) and let it loose on the rest of the records.

Source?

You're wrong......the just changed the name. No way they would give up the right to examine our anuses

Follow the money.

>If you are not awaiting trial for a financial crime it is illegal for law enforcement to access your bank records

I don't know about that. Money laundering is a crime and the US Treasury can certainly investigate it before indictment.

As soon as you give up they already won. It matters.

Wait, have they not already won?

Wasn't the PATRIOT act supposed to be temporary?

Remember, they need to see every transaction over $600.
But fuck if they can do anything about the crime committed byt HSBC, UBS, Wells Fargo, etc.
Or the trillions unaccounted for in defense spending.

The government is the biggest criminal.

Pretty obvious what they’re doing.

This is dumb and obviously false. Even leaving aside the things others have pointed out, the whole point of investigations is to decide if someone should or should not be on trial.

Had you said something like, "Without a warrant, it is illegal for law enforcement to access your bank records" that sitll would have been wrong, but not as obviously idiotic as your actual statement.

Think harder.

Lol that’s such a more roundabout answer than the much more simple “because why not “

They aren’t bank records

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Is it?

Yes, yes it is.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/conspiracy_theories.png

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I hate to say it , but as long as there’s been online communication; there have been the means to both capture it and analyze it. End of discussion. The world’s governments aren’t giving up there ability to spy on us all. Why would they? I tell those that who truly want anonymity to simply unplug. Nothing online is secure. Was never designed to be…..