Sunday, December 15, 2024

Tag: Report: Federal Government Asked Big Banks to Surveil Purchases of VPNs and Gift Cards

Report: Federal Government Asked Big Banks to Surveil Purchases of VPNs and Gift Cards, Transfers to Crowdsourcing Sites

by Tom Parker, Reclaim The Net:

New documents pull back the curtain on the federal government’s shocking push for mass financial surveillance that reportedly targeted millions of Americans.

In January, the House Judiciary Committee sounded the alarm about the federal government asking banks to surveil transactions related to certain keywords, such as “MAGA” and “Trump,” as part of investigations into January 6, 2021 at the Capitol. But new documents obtained by the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have revealed that the surveillance that was initially identified by the House Judiciary Committee in January was much broader than these early reports suggested.