| ▲ | clumsysmurf 2 hours ago | |
> The DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows that Border Patrol is analyzing the financial activity of Americans to find people to pull over... > It is not clear how exactly Border Patrol is monitoring Americans’ financial activity. Can anyone take a guess how they are monitoring financial activity? | ||
| ▲ | eloisius 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Buying it from CapitalOne like everyone else? | ||
| ▲ | kart23 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
spending taxpayer money on buying the taxpayers data from credit card companies. imagine paying someone to buy your own information to spy on you, pretty incredible system that we've come up with | ||
| ▲ | convolvatron an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I worked a little on a finsec program in the early 90s. I had an anonymized dataset with bank account deposits and withdrawals and credit card transactions. I don't know how complete it was, but dividing by the US population the total number of records made it pretty feasible that it was the whole thing. | ||