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Spy agencies to be granted access to US citizen finances


Credit: CBS News









Topics: Security, Government US



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  • Time to take your money out

    How can you place your trust in something that uses "Trust" as its motto, when it hands out your information without a warrant? I suggest buying your own lock box and operating on a cash-only basis.
    • I'm there already

      I haven't had a personal account with any bank for more than 10 years. I assume "they" have been digging through people's affairs for a long time, it's just now that they are telling us they are doing it.

      The slippery slope has brought us to a point where there is nothing "they" can do that will generate any significant outrage from 'we the people.'
    • until...

      ... they outlaw cash. Those pieces of paper and glorified tokens aren't worth anything if you can't get someone to accept them in trade for anything.
  • Help!

    Anonymous! Time to get to work again....
    Kootenay Coyote
    • Censorship is alive at ZDNet

      Wrote a reply outlining the evidence showing some of the illegal activities of our puppet government. It contained no profanities, but the censorship banner popped up. The power elite are already in complete control. Freedom disappeared even before the Patriot Act.
      • You got it BillDem

        Now they are trying to legalize it.
  • Mattress stuffin'

    Federal networks have already proven they can't keep citizens' confidential data safe.
    • Mattress eh been busy?

      If the government wanted to know how much is in the sack they would not have to look unless the books don't tally.
  • "They" certainly gutted the Fourth Amendment, didn't "they"?

    The road to hell, and tyranny, is paved with "good intentions".
    • It is not with "good" intensions but deadly intention.

      Yes lets hear it for Them! And did you consider that spy agency's are not about enforcement? Drones are not enforcement. Its about war. That is a necessary thing. I say go get 'em.
  • Charlie

    Very little intelligent commentary is making it past the profanity filter any more. They are suceeding, because we don't have time to wite then have it discarded.

    P.S. as other have noted there has not been a hint of profanity in attempted posts.
    • Stupidly Programmed Software

      I too recently commented only to have it flagged as profanity.
      I pored over my post to imagine just what tripped the filter. I think either 'Erudite' or '...below the belt' did it.
      Pathetic on ZDNet's part.
    • For me...

      ...in another article the word that must have triggered it was l u n a c y...
      • This is content filtering

        I don't think that it has to do with keywords. here were no words that I wrote that could have been caught in a filter.

        There are concepts which they do not want to gain widespread attention.
  • i got no money, so why would i care !!

    my suggestion is to start with Trumps bank accounts.
  • George Orwell saw it coming!

    For all that has been written about dictatorships and Communist countries having their citizens under constant surveillance. But with the help of technology and 911, the good ole USA is sliding right down that slippery slope to the point where Big Brother will be watching every move its citizens make. First they say its to protect us from terrorists. Then next time they'll say it's for tracking criminals. Soon it will be helping 'too big to fail banks' locate people behind on their accounts. Each time it'll get a little easier to justify because the American people will initially be upset but will then settle down and continue to vote in the politicians that help make this all possible with their votes. Before long, we're no better than those third world dictatorships our country loves to hate.
  • Wow, how times have changed

    Can you imagine the uproar had an administration propose such an action 5 years ago?

    Obama 2012: Bush's 4th term.
    • When no one is conservative....

      You can bunch em all with George Bush, but then again they were elected as Democrats, endorsed at the Democratic convention, still spout liberal whiny green policies which never work and only raise the utility bills, endorsed and passed a bill (Obamacare) which by means of the HHS actually funnels all liberal and conservative taxpayer money into abortion wether you believe in it or not. You Mr. McGrew have got to realize it's just not only Bush's 4th term, but our countries loss of a CONSERVATIVE agenda which has caused all the problems. Republicans used to be conservative, the fact you still blame Bush 5 years later and under King Obama's reign only further prove their loss of ideologies and leaning to the without morals LEFT.
      • Uh....

        ****Republicans used to be conservative, the fact you still blame Bush 5 years later and under King Obama's reign only further prove their loss of ideologies and leaning to the without morals LEFT.****

        Uh, how did you manage to interpret his post to mean that he was blaming former President Bush for anything?
        Hallowed are the Ori
        • EDIT - Nevermind

          I reread his post, and now I'm not even sure what the hell he meant.

          BTW: ZDNet's forum sucks. Bring back the damned "Edit Post" button.
          Hallowed are the Ori