If the INQUIRER is to be believed....
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US spooks illegally check your credit cards
SPIES WORKING FOR THE JUNTA of revolting British colonialists in the Americas have started illegally monitoring credit cards.
According to documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act, federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations. They have done all this without the nicety of getting a court order.
Writing in his blog, insecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian said that "Hotwatch" orders allow for real-time tracking of individuals in a criminal investigation via credit card companies, rental car agencies, calling cards, and even grocery store loyalty programs.
The news shows how keen the US Department of Justice is about using its powers to watch Americans with little or no judicial or Congressional oversight.
To get information on a person's credit cards, agents can get real-time information on a person's purchases by writing their own subpoena, followed up by an order from a judge that the surveillance not be disclosed.
Normally the spooks ask for all historical records on an account or individual from a credit card company.
Then the spooks send a request for "Any and all records and information relating directly or indirectly to any and all ongoing and future transactions or events relating to any and all of the following persons, entitities, account numbers, addresses and other matters." That gets them a live feed of transaction data.
The best side of hotwatch orders is that they do not have to be reported to Congress like the numbers of criminal and national security wiretaps undertaken.
It is starting to look like the Americans having to pay a penny a year on tea and getting their defence paid for was a better bet than trying to set up its own government with the French. µ
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yes they do use Credit Cards
yours and mine anybodies except thier own
Do real crooks use credit cards.
As "aero" notes, a revealed increment, nothing new.
The most alarming thing about the police state is how slowly and irresistibly it's being installed. Every corporation is now an agent of the gov't. The Surveillance State is everywhere but nowhere, so widespread and subtle that it's de-centralized compared to the *old* tyrannies, and its goons can be dispatched with instant communications. It's nearly impossible for individuals to resist, yet the masses are dulled and lulled by TV and games. (This being Friday, I'm a little pessimistic.)
Yet even so, STILL, all we need do is identify the privileged *few* who run the system, and bring them to justice for crimes committed against the people.
This article appears to be about 20 or 30 years late. Anybody who has watched a crime drama on TV in the last few decades (and given the choices on our TVs that means anyone who has watched prime time TV) knows that the first thing that the police do when investigating or tracking someone is to check the credit card records and get real time information on where they are being used.
I think everyone (execpt possibly the author) knows that the information on what you are doing with your credit card is shared by your credit card company with many entitities only one of which may be the authorities.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Yeah, like you Brits and Euros aren't living in a Zionist controlled police state just like the rest of the West and most of the world.
as usual, the people that bleat on about freedom are those that have the least of it.
at least they have a cosy little illusion to cling to as they deny it
sheeple
America is a right wing, fascist bible bashing nightmare. Religion has a lot to answer for.
Americans talk about free speech protection, europeans talk about privacy protections.
Data protection laws are tougher here than in the states.
Not to say that it wouldn;t happen here, its just that bit less likely.
There are regular bits/ complaints in the press about any data going from europe/ UK to the US, because its nowhere near as well protected in law over there.
Yeah they'd have more personal privacy in the EU and britain specifically, hahahaha, good one.