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Originally posted by Spanky
Both. If you are involved in any sort of international transaction the other country involved will most certainly feel it has a right to check out what you are doing. So there is abolutely no expectation of privacy. I know the Japanese government monitors all incoming and outgoing financial transactions and phone calls. The listen to them and check them out with impunity.
If the government can check you all they want (including an anal cavity search) when you cross the border why shouldn't they be able to check phone calls and banking transactions that cross the border?
But I think that is the way Federal Law views it anyway.
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It seems like there are some countries that seem to kind of market themselves as providing banking privacy? Like islands to the south of the US, and a little country that has been a democracy for a long long time. I think, at least as to the long-term democracy place, that they have been convinced to waive some things when there is a showing that the person likely holding the account is Very Very Bad, but it doesn't seem like their government is really into reviewing bank records willy nilly.
On the body cavity search, is the standard at a border crossing (or going through customs or whatever when you get off an international flight) different from the standard at just a regular domestic flight? It seems like if you are a US citizen on US soil (incl. airport) you would have some, like, rights. Or is that a mini-Guantanamo? If so, why can't we relocate the Guantanamo people to airports or something?
