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DHS cross-references private banking data to flag Americans for local police stops
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DHS's Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team cross-references Americans' private banking data with arrest records and flags individuals to local police for traffic stops based on financial patterns deemed suspicious.
Federal financial surveillance is being integrated into everyday policing without the knowledge of those targeted, with local police using pretextual stops to conceal the surveillance origin. The lack of transparency about how DHS obtains bank records, combined with FinCEN reissuing reporting orders in jurisdictions that haven't ruled against them, means the scope of this surveillance is expanding despite legal challenges.
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DHS's Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team cross-referenced a licensed marijuana farmer's banking data with arrest records and flagged him to Montana Highway Patrol, who stopped him for an obstructed license plate rather than the surveillance tip.
FinCEN reissued its reporting order for money services businesses in New Mexico and Texas border counties after the 9th Circuit ruled a similar order was likely arbitrary and capricious and failed to consider compliance costs.
ICE has gained access to an industry database of 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills, and Border Patrol and ICE run a nationwide license plate camera network flagging drivers based on patterns of life.
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