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  • When your bank/CU/brokerage demands that you login to their portal to update KYC info - Hack Liberty

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  • That makes some sense.

    In my case I think I have credit that I’ve never actually used; and I think I’ve also put on their file that I am unemployed. So in principle consumers who either don’t care for the credit, or are happy to be in the highest risk category, they should not be harassed with this. I will just ignore it and see what happens.

  • Hack Liberty's Lemmy Instance is now available over Tor!

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  • I doubt it. It will probably show the clearnet address. I just now logged in via the onion, so this reply will be a test.

  • Say Goodbye to Cloud Anonymity? New US Regulations Demand User Identification

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  • Replacement link to a privacy-respecting host:

    https://www.blankrome.com/publications/us-department-commerce-publishes-proposed-rule-imposing-know-your-customer-and

    This article seems to suggest the KYC rules only apply to foreign customers:

    https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/commerce-proposes-rule-to-fight-foreign-cloud-cyber-threats-a-24219

    but then you have to wonder how they will know you’re domestic without a bit of KYC on Americans as well.

    BTW, a good way to find privacy-respecting links is to search using this service:

    https://ombrelo.im5wixghmfmt7gf7wb4xrgdm6byx2gj26zn47da6nwo7xvybgxnqryid.onion/

    That search tool will not return Cloudflare MitMd links.

  • How the Religion Called Atheism is Destroying Human Freedom

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  • I’m not on a good enough connection to watch videos but when I read “How the Religion called Atheism…” I know it cannot be coming from any sort of credible source. Atheism is absence of religion, not a religion in itself. It includes both agnostics and gnostics (both those who are convinced there is no god and those who are unconvinced either way). So I don’t suppose it’s worth it to note the URL and try to fetch the video when I have a good connection.

  • Say Goodbye to Cloud Anonymity? New US Regulations Demand User Identification

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  • Lawmakers have figured out they can circumvent 4A by forcing the private sector and external governments to do their surveillance. It worked for banking KYC and it worked for FATCA. The industry is apparently not worried at all about losing customers. And they won’t. To circumvent 4A, just outsource governance to a non-government entity.

  • Say Goodbye to Cloud Anonymity? New US Regulations Demand User Identification

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  • Love the irony of being blocked from reading that article because I am anonymous and the #reclaimthenet hypocrits insist on using Cloudflare.

    So I can only comment on the title and what the OP (apparently) copied. Judging by how the masses happily continue using banks who voluntarily abuse KYC by collecting more info than required, internet users will also be pushovers who give in to whatever KYC comes their way.

    This policy will actually create victims. Just like GSM registration creates victims. In regions that require GSM registration phone theft goes up because criminals will steal a phone just for a live SIM chip. So KYC creates incentive for criminals to run their services from someone else’s PC.

  • Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

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  • This is a double-edged sword. In the US, banking is really optional. You can live an unbanked life in the US and get paid in cash, if you want. And you can force creditors to accept your cash payment on debts. That’s an important freedom.

    In Europe, where banking is treated as a public service that all people are entitled to, they have created a system where you must use a bank. They have banned cash payment for wages. So you have a right to a bank acct but then you are forced to use it.

    #warOnCash #forcedBanking

  • Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

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  • You’ve misunderstood the problem if you fail to see that ruling in favor of one party necessarily violates the rights of the other party. The decision was a compromise on which party’s rights carry more weight to prevail over the rights of the other party. Both parties had rights worthy of defending.

  • Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

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  • Of course I have biases, but the bias does not reflect in my thesis (which is the opposite of what you realize). In particular, just because I find the bakers to be bigots does not mean I expect them to lose in court. I still actually believe the bigoted bakers rightfully won the case (thus, this does not prove your point, which is that you think there should have been no court case). The court case was not about whether they are bigots. It’s about whether an artist should be forced to produce art that favorably expresses people/ideas they hate against their 1st amendment rights also amid their right to choose who to do business with.

    So the court was right to rule in favor of the bakers. But your claim that there should not have been a court case at all remains unsupported. The case had merit. The rights of people in a protected group (sexual orientation) were discriminated against and so they were rightfully given a forum to have their legitimate complaint heard.

    IMO, it’s a fucked up extreme bias that brings you to consider the case frivolous, as if one side of the debate did not have enough merit to even warrant a court case.

  • Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

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  • They were still fined a lot of money

    No they weren’t. Read the first line of your own referenced article. The fine was dropped. And the original payment came from other people’s crowd-funded donations toward the case anyway, which was returned.

    Also, precedence matters and court ranking matters. Lower courts in certain regions can have all kinds of bizarre judgments but higher courts take precedence. The Oregon Court of Appeals is not representative of the US. The US Supreme Court is. The Bank of America case would be in a federal court as many states are involved.

    And spent a considerable amount of time and energy defending themselves for no damn reason

    So you not only misunderstood the outcome, but you object to rights of one party being tried against rights of another party in court? Bizarre to have sympathy for bigots being dragged through the court system, despite getting off the hook.

  • Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

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  • The Oregon Court of Appeals is a lower court than the US Supreme Court. The Bank of America case is federal.

  • Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

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  • Love the irony and hypocrisy. What self-respecting conservative promotes regulation, particularly that would take control away from a business on who they do business with?

    There’s also quite a bit of hypocrisy from a privacy standpoint. It’s the conservatives to don’t value privacy and take the “if you have nothing to hide…” line of reasoning. When a giant corporation voluntarily shares sensitive information about customers, it’s always the right-leaning corporations who do that; ALEC members.

    Funnily enough, I boycott Bank of America for supporting conservative values (private prisons, xenophobia, fossil fuel investment, privacy-disrespect):

    https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/usa_banks.md

    while the conservatives want to cancel Bank of America for essentially for being conservative. Apparently it’s not conservative enough for BofA to apply conservative values uniformly, as opposed to giving conservative individuals preferential treatment.

  • Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

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  • Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

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  • Clearview AI: Ohio's Ongoing Use of a Controversial Photo-Collection Firm for Facial Recognition Searches

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  • Surely some of those captured faces are people in Europe, Brazil, and California, who would then be protected by GDPR, L…(something.. forgot), and CCPA respectively.

  • Facial Recognition Technology To Hit New Zealand Grocery Stores

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  • Under the guise of reducing crime,

    Woolworths has justified these measures as necessary for the purposes of security.

    There is video surveillance, and then there is that extra intrusive step of facial recognition. They can have video without FR. They can submit video evidence to the police who can then use FR, if needed. They probably want to argue that they can block known shoplifters as they enter. But of course what they really want is to track who enters the shop, which products they look at, how long they gaze at promo ads, etc. Being able to preemptively strike without a crime, just a bad reputation, does not justify the intrusion to everyone else.

    Food is essential. It’s not like some shitty smartphone shop or Amazon b&m store that people can boycott.

  • Why do airlines share my itinerary with my bank? GDPR violation? Any travelers switching to cash?

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  • privacy.com omits some critical details so it’s unclear if that would actually work.

    The virtual cards are designed so the merchant does not get your permanent card №. But nothing is said on that site about how the money flows. If the virtual card is linked to a conventional card, then the transaction info from the merchant could get passed through to the bank anyway.

    (edit) Registrants must agree to ACH linking. That’s probably a good thing.. it somewhat suggests they do an ACH pull from your bank to pay for the transaction, in which case your bank only sees X amount being drafted, not what it is for.

    I insist on cash to buy alcohol & junk food, because who’s to say the banks don’t sell that info to data brokers who sell it to insurance companies? Perhaps this is a way to use a card for purchases that could work against you. Although we still have to trust privacy.com, which I’m a little skeptical about because they have a gratis plan. Maybe the merchant fee compensates privacy.com well enough.. but it would be nice to know if that’s the case.