Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Monday, 8 August 2022 17:34:40 BST Laurence Perkins wrote:

> They have no reason to bother.  At least not in the USA.  US courts ruled
> decades ago that as soon as you give information to a third party you lose
> all expectation of privacy (yes, even if the third party promised privacy
> in the contract you have with them.)
 
> Phone voice data and U.S. Mail are specifically protected legally, as are
> privileged communications with a lawyer, priest, or doctor (although that
> last category is so riddled with exceptions as to barely count). 
> Otherwise, anybody you do any business with at all can be forced to give up
> any and all records they have about you, no warrant required, and can be
> ordered not to tell you it's been done.
 
> So government level actors spying on your banking just go to the bank.  And
> they've been getting more nosey in recent years.  Last I heard, any
> transaction over $600 gets automatically reported to them, and they keep
> talking about lowering that threshold.

Thank goodness I don't live in the good ol' US of A. The land of the free? 
Hm...

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Regards,
Peter.