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How Financial Surveillance Threatens Our Democracies (bitcoinmagazine.com)

submitted 4 months ago by makeasnek@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The article doesn't even discuss how financial survillance is related to democracy.

I just looked for the paragraphs where "democracy" is discussed and it's nowhere stated how it is threatened by financial survaillance.

Whatever the author states in the article, it's not about a threat to democracy. I go even further and state that monitoring all financial transactions is good for a democracy. Today, almost all transactions are monitored anyway.

[–] electro1@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago

I go even further and state that monitoring all financial transactions is good for a democracy

How so ?

almost all transactions are monitored anyway

I beg to differ... how do you think cartels get their funds ?