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CONGRESS JUST PASSED A MASSIVE SURVEILLANCE EXPANSION AND CALLED IT "CRYPTO REGULATION" The CLARITY Act isn't about protecting investors. It's about dragging every cryptocurrency transaction into the government's financial surveillance net. 1/ Crypto brokers and exchanges now fall under Bank Secrecy Act reporting requirements -- every trade monitored 2/...

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Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert just declared war on the mass surveillance state. “FISA 702 is just the tip of the iceberg … ” “There have been so many erosions of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.” “The Bank Secrecy Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, the Patriot Act … all of them created so-called loopholes in the Constitution.” “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act … is used to go after Americans.” “I’ve been in a SCIF last week where I saw two secret rulings … of how the government has created additional loopholes to spy on you that I’m not even allowed to tell you.” “And finally, the third-party doctrine.” “It’s based on a ruling of the Supreme Court … I think it was a bad ruling, but it’s been expanded in its interpretation to include things like doctor’s appointment records, bank records, phone records … Flock cameras.” “Imagine … that you turn AI loose on these databases.” “Now, there’s virtually nothing the government can’t know about you without a warrant.” “That is why we’ve created … the Surveillance Accountability Act.” “It closes these loopholes that I’ve explained.” “And more importantly, it creates a private right of action.” “It’s almost impossible to sue federal government employees if they infringe on your constitutional rights.” “The second half of this bill gives you the right to sue the government employee.” “If they infringe on your constitutional rights, they could be privately and personally sued for that.” Thomas Massie Thomas Massie for Congress Lauren Boebert

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The Bank Surveillance Secrecy Act: How America Lost Financial Privacy | Free The Money Ep. 31 As we approach the United States' 250th anniversary, it's worth asking whether we've stayed true to the principles the country was founded on. In this episode of Free The Money, I sit down with Nick Anthony, Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), to examine the Bank Secrecy Act and how it transformed banks into de facto law enforcement and has led to decades of expanded surveillance every American. Our Founding Fathers saw how general warrants were used to ransack people's homes, searching for anything authorities could use against them. They recognized this as a fundamental threat to liberty, which is why the Fourth Amendment was created to protect Americans from unreasonable searches and government overreach. Yet today, because of the Bank Secrecy Act, millions of financial records are collected yearly, monitored, and reported to the government without a warrant. What began as a tool to combat tax evasion has evolved into a vast financial surveillance system where banks have effectively become an extension of law enforcement. Nick reported that in a single year, U.S. financial institutions spent an estimated $59 billion complying with the Bank Secrecy Act. During that same period, they filed roughly 28 million reports on their customers, yet those reports generated just 275 investigative leads for the IRS. Of those 275 leads, we don't know how many resulted in arrests or convictions. Nick argues these numbers are evidence of a broken system that subjects millions of law-abiding Americans to financial surveillance with very very little to show for it. Building on that, we also discuss the Third-Party Doctrine, the legal theory that allows the government to obtain information shared with banks and other intermediaries without a warrant. What began as financial surveillance has expanded into something much broader. In an increasingly digital world, where nearly every transaction, communication, and interaction passes through a third party, this doctrine gives the government access to vast amounts of personal information that previous generations would have considered private. As Nick explains, the government is no longer ransacking physical homes, it is increasingly able to sift through our digital lives, collecting information that reveals who we are, where we go, who we associate with, and what we believe. The result is a level of surveillance that would have been unimaginable to the Founders, raising serious questions about privacy, government overreach, and the future of protections in the digital age. Subscribe to Nick’s Substack: Want financial privacy? Check out my favorite privacy coin, Zano and follow Zano for updates. You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: Sign up for iTrustCapital using my link for a $100 funding bonus and see why more people are opening tax-advantaged Crypto, Gold & Silver IRAs to diversify and protect their future wealth: 0:00 Intro 1:17 The Real Origins of the Bank Secrecy Act: How Financial Surveillance Began 4:16 $60 Billion Spent, 30 Million Reports Filed, Only 275 IRS Leads Generated 6:34 CTRs vs SARs: The Reports Banks File on Ordinary Americans 9:26 Why the $10,000 Reporting Threshold Makes Less Sense Every Year 14:20 How America Exported Financial Surveillance Worldwide & Enabled Transnational Repression 19:27 Zano- Private By Default 21:27 9/11, The Patriot Act & the Explosion of Financial Surveillance 25:03FinCEN: The Agency Collecting Millions of Americans' Financial Records 26:46 ITrustCapital 28:22 The Third-Party Doctrine: How the Fourth Amendment Was Bypassed 32:54 The Lawmakers Fighting to Reform or Repeal the Bank Secrecy Act: Rep Warren Davidson 🇺🇸, Congressman John Rose, & Senator Mike Lee and a handful of others 35:50 Active Lawsuit Against FinCEN Flagging $200 Remittances at Southern Border 39:08 FinCEN's 2013 Crypto Guidance & How It Changed the Industry 43:32 Privacy Isn't Suspicious: Why Privacy Technology Matters 49:19 CBDCs, Stablecoins & Nick Anthony's Hot Take on the CLARITY Act 53:21 Financial Freedom in Nigeria: Why People Are Turning to Privacy Coins 55:15 BIS Revealed that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is Still an Active Participant in Project Agorá 59:52 Book Recommendations: Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell, The Theory of Monetary Institutions by Lawrence White, The Triumph of Fear by Patrick Eddington & Rodigan by David Rodigan

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Canada liberal government has 3 bills that when passed will be their most destructive bills ever put into law Free speech will be ended, Canadians will be thrown in prison for social media posts, warrantless searches of phones, pre-crime punishments and even open your mail Bill C-2 - empowers government employees, not police, to open your mail, search your phone or computer — all without a warrant. Bill C-8 - gives cabinet ministers the power to kick Canadians off the internet, impose fines, and demand data — no judge, no police review. Bill C-9 - removes legal safeguards around free speech. Justice Centre expands “hate” prosecutions. Online Harms Act - brings pre-crime punishment: house arrest, ankle bracelets, curfews for people who haven’t committed a crime. Because they might. “If the Online Harms Act is brought back and passed into law, you're gonna see the Canadian Human Rights Commission with massive new powers to prosecute Canadians over offensive non-criminal speech with penalties up to $50,000” (This is a bill that insiders say is about to be revived and passed with the 3 above) “Canada will be a police state by Christmas if Parliament passes bills C2, C8, and C9 in their current form. C2 is the Strong Borders Act. It should be called the Strong Surveillance Act. It empowers Canada Post to open letter mail without a warrant. It criminalizes the use of cash in amounts greater than $10,000. And it empowers a vast army of government officials, not just police, to conduct warrantless searches of the computers and cell phones of Canadians. It is a massive invasion of privacy. It's extremely dangerous.” “You're gonna see a Digital Safety Commission with a vast army of bureaucrats to enforce federal regulations that are passed in respective of the internet and internet contents. And you're gonna see Canadians punished preemptively because their neighbor fears that they might commit a hate speech crime in future, the Online Harms Act would authorize judges to place Canadians under house arrest, wearing an ankle bracelet and respect a curfew, et cetera. Giving the federal government, giving federal cabinet ministers power to kick Canadians off the internet is not necessary for protecting public safety or defending our national security.”

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