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You have ZERO financial privacy (links.hackliberty.org)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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and after casually admitting to dragnet mass surveillance, they had the audacity to later force a redaction. see below:

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is specific to New York, which has banned making your own firearms. In the state I live in, there would be absolutely nothing illegal about buying 80% parts and building my own firearms. Or, if I really hated myself, buying a benchtop CNC mill, and trying to make a functioning 2011.

Tracking the sale of certain classes of items and having reams of data is obviously a huge problem; the only way to correct it would be to enact privacy laws that forbade companies from selling or sharing data with any gov't agency without a warrant, and then limiting the warrant to a single person's transactions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I figured that NY must have made 80% parts illegal based on the context of this whole case.