Bank of America Caught Helping The FBI Spy On American Citizens
It's "for your safety"...
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WAYS TO CURB ILLEGAL FBI SPYING
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The House Judiciary Committee has filed a subpoena at Bank of America for documents related to illegal compliance with the FBI to track financial payments of American citizens in Washington, DC. Chairman Jim Jordan said in the press release that the FBI did not have any criminal complaints against the citizens in question before warrantlessly spying on them
The FBI was allegedly “interested in all financial relationships” of Bank of America customers in America’s Capitol and also directly contacted Bank of America to make it happen. The information the FBI was interested in were firearm purchases, hotel and Air BnB bookings, and other everyday purchases.
This harrows back to the days when the FBI had open access to Apple users’ personal data and the discovery of secret government backdoors into most major technology companies including Microsoft, Google, and other household names.
side note: it isn’t just governments that want to look over your shoulder while you use your phone, laptop, or even smart TV. Corporations and internet tech companies and social media WANT to track everything you do so they can make millions from all your data. To learn how this works and what you can do to stop them, Privacy Is Power is a must-read.
But even if you are not concerned that the FBI is illegally spying on Americans, major corporations are doing it too via trackers, their software, and even zipcode entries. Your data is literally sold to the highest bidder so companies can make a profit.
So what are some ways to combat this? For starters, a good VPN prevents your internet provider from snooping on and selling your internet usage by putting it inside an excrypted wall through an anonymous server. Of all the VPNs, there is only one that I use myself: Hide Me
Hide Me VPN is different from many other VPN services in that they are based in Malaysia, which does not extradite to the United States. This is important because, while every major VPN company is log-free, popular VPNs like Nord and Express VPN are based in countries that extradite. And these VPN companies collect your payment information, which includes your address, debit or credit card information, and more.
So the FBI can simply ask for your payment information from them and they are forced to hand it over if they have it. Hide Me doesn’t, because America does not have any agreements with the country they operate in. Any VPN that can’t say no completely misses the point of the existence of the VPN in the first place. This is one reason Hide Me is actually more secure than Nord or Express VPN. Not only do they have the same no-log policy, but this was independently certified and audited as well.
Right now, Hide Me is having a flash sale and is going for just $2.22/month. So you can up your internet privacy for just pennies a day.
In addition to adding a VPN to hide your internet traffic and make you anonymous to both government eyes and corporations, it may be a good idea to look into a Linux phone or a hardened Android phone.
While Samsung, Google, and Apple phones are fantastic pieces of technology, they also allow their parent companies to track everything you do on them. And these companies use this information to build a complex profile on you to sell you targeted ads. This information also ends up in NSA servers by osmosis.
To counter this, a Linux phone is your best bet. The Librem 5 is the most advanced Linux phone to date, but it has ancient technology compared to current Android and Apple flagships. However, it does come with the peace of mind of knowing your phone manufacturer can’t snoop on what you’re doing.
The Librem 5 also comes with hard switches that physically disconnect the microphone, camera, and cellular service so the NSA or your phone manufacturer can’t secretly turn these features on and listen in on your conversations or film you. It also comes with a removable battery, so you can keep using this phone for years to come without worrying about the battery crapping out on you.
With the government and corporations getting more and more involved in your everyday life, privacy is becoming more and more scarce. Your daily habits are being tracked, cataloged, and sold at a premium. Using Hide Me VPN or a Linux phone can help alleviate some of that pressure and help you have peace of mind.
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