Reads: Your Bank Account Is a Flock Camera

There is a camera on a pole near you right now, and it is photographing every car that passes. Adam O'Brien's essay "Jump Out of the Pot" turns that camera around and points it at your bank account: the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act that made banks informants, the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that made your financial records the bank's property instead of yours, and the 257 Canadian accounts frozen in hours for a perfectly legal donation. Financial privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's protection against a government that changes the definition of bad things after the fact. The code already protects your coins. Only your habits protect the rest. FinancialPrivacy #Surveillance #FlockSafety Buy Bitcoin straight to your own wallet at bitcoinwell.com. New accounts use code PODCAST.