[CLUE-Talk] The Advance of the Surveillance Society

[Jed S. Baer]

Well, apparently any financial transactions other than cash,
person-to-person, have no protection under the 4th ammendment.

http://my.sybase.com/detail?id=1019355

<quote>
The USA PATRIOT Act ... requires that all depository financial
institutions and broker dealers must know the true identity of their
customers and the source of their funds, and must monitor for and report
suspicious activity and aggregate transactions across all channels,
including the ACH and wire transfers. Insurance, credit card and finance
companies and dealers in automobiles, airplanes, boats and real estate
will fall under the same 'know your customer' and transaction monitoring
requirements, with implementation deadlines falling in late 2002 and into
2003.</quote>

I hadn't seen this in the EFF's analysis of USAPA. So, it looks like no
subpoena or warrant is required.

jed
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