Re: [ft-l] FW: Your Bank Wants to Spy On You...

This is way outside the charter for the FT-L list... please refrain from posts
like this.   Followups to me personally, not the list.

Ryan (admin) Brooks
ryan@inc.net

"Hale, Pamela" wrote:

> I'm participating in an Internet campaign to stop a regulation which would
> require your bank to spy on you, and I'd like to invite you to join me.
>
> We now have less than 30 days to contact the FDIC and demand that it kill
> its proposed "Know Your Customer" rule.  Please forward this e-mail to
> everyone you think might be interested, then go to
> http://www.defendyourprivacy.com and sign the petition.  It will be
> submitted directly to the FDIC.  Plus, a copy will be sent to your
> representative in the U.S. House and to both your U.S. Senators.
>
> The FDIC's Know Your Customer rule would force banks to "monitor" your
> checking and savings account and report any "unusual transactions" to the
> federal government.  This frightening threat to your financial privacy would
> force your bank to:
>
>   * Discover your "source of funds"
>
>   * Determine your "normal and expected
>     transactions"
>
>   * Report any "suspicious activity" to federal
>     investigators
>
> The government claims it is trying to thwart money launderers and drug
> dealers.  But what this law will do is turn every bank teller into a
> government informer and everyone with a bank account into a criminal
> suspect.
>
> In a free society, the government has no business asking where you get your
> money or how you spend it -- and politicians have no right to force your
> bank to monitor your account.
>
> But that's exactly what's going to happen, unless we can generate enough
> opposition before the FDIC's comment period expires on March 8.  Outraged
> Americans have already flooded the FDIC with over 16,000 comments against
> the Know Your Customer regulation -- but the agency hasn't backed down yet.
>
> Let's keep up the pressure.
>
> Please forward this e-mail to everyone you know who might be interested in
> helping, but please don't send it indiscriminately -- spam will only hurt
> our campaign.
>
> Then go to http://www.defendyourprivacy.com and sign the petition.
>
> Thank you. <<Your Bank Wants to Spy On You...>>
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Your Bank Wants to Spy On You...
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:59:40 -0500
> From: Scott Hamilton <ScottH@Sensory.com>
> To: "'Anderson, Ben'" <bfanders@home.com>, "'Anderson, Bob'"
>      <rdanders@wans.net>, "'Ault, Gary'" <ault_g@yahoo.com>, "'Bowers, Dan'"
>      <DCBowers@mem.po.com>, "'Bowman, Travis'" <travis_michelle@hotmail.com>,
>      "'Broccolino, Victor'" <brocco111@aol.com>, "'Carlstrom, Glenn'"
>      <glenn@smart.net>, "'Chalmers, James'" <JChalmers@ihs-inc.com>,
>      "'Chase, Tim'" <tim@gfc.org>, "'Daniels, Pam'" <pjdaniels1@juno.com>,
>      "'Daniels, Todd@Home'" <tscottyd@bellatlantic.net>,
>      "'Daniels, Todd@Work'" <todddaniels@juno.com>, "'Dunlap, Mark'"
>      <74224.2345@Compuserve.com>, "'Fisher, Jeff'" <jfisher@jagunet.com>,
>      "'Forney, John'" <76216.3707@Compuserve.com>, "'Forno, Lisa'"
>      <lforno@ibm.net>, "'Fulk, Irene'" <FULKENHAUT@aol.com>,
>      "'Granzow, Doug'" <dig@cynosure.com>, "'Hamilton, Chris'"
>      <hamiltcb@truman.navy.mil>, "'Hamilton, Ma and Pa'" <Apsweeps@aol.com>,
>      "'Hamilton, Megan'" <MHamilto@RCMD.com>, "'Harral, Brian'"
>      <brian_harral@fanniemae.com>, "'Healy, Mike'" <healyoids@aol.com>,
>      "'Hoffman, Bob'" <HofClimb@jagunet.com>, "'Irani, Jennifer'"
>      <jenirani@juno.com>, "'Kelly, Dawn T.'" <dkelly1@mobile.bam.com>,
>      "'Kelly, Larry'" <larry_kelly_at_kelly-chick@kaig.com>,
>      "'Kinard, Jennifer'" <jkkinard@ix.netcom.com>, "'Kinard, Ken'"
>      <Ken.Kinard@bubbs.biola.edu>, "'Kirchner, Steve and Lois'"
>      <Kirchner@jagunet.com>, "'Logan, Dave (work)'" <DLogan@ihs-inc.com>,
>      "'Makary, Mark'" <makary@juno.com>, "'Mason, Sandy'" <sjm@gfc.org>,
>      "'Paulis, Dara'" <dmp13@juno.com>, "'Perkins, Matthew'"
>      <matthew.perkins@usaa.com>, "'Poling, Jason'" <jpoling@gfc.org>,
>      "'Racer, Brian'" <pastor@followingtheway.org>, "'Rathert, David'"
>      <david_rathert@urscorp.com>, "'Samuelson, Roy'" <Doorwall@earthlink.net>,
>      "'Scheer, Steve'" <SNS@StanleyAssoc.com>, "'Schmidt, Vernon'"
>      <vsiv@concentric.net>, "'Taylor, Christine'" <greenchile@juno.com>,
>      'VickiB' <vickib@Sensory.com>, "'Rothman, Mitchell'"
>      <Mitchell@ccpl.carr.lib.md.us>
>
> I'm participating in an Internet campaign to stop a regulation which would
> require your bank to spy on you, and I'd like to invite you to join me.
>
> We now have less than 30 days to contact the FDIC and demand that it kill
> its proposed "Know Your Customer" rule.  Please forward this e-mail to
> everyone you think might be interested, then go to
> http://www.defendyourprivacy.com and sign the petition.  It will be
> submitted directly to the FDIC.  Plus, a copy will be sent to your
> representative in the U.S. House and to both your U.S. Senators.
>
> The FDIC's Know Your Customer rule would force banks to "monitor" your
> checking and savings account and report any "unusual transactions" to the
> federal government.  This frightening threat to your financial privacy would
> force your bank to:
>
>   * Discover your "source of funds"
>
>   * Determine your "normal and expected
>     transactions"
>
>   * Report any "suspicious activity" to federal
>     investigators
>
> The government claims it is trying to thwart money launderers and drug
> dealers.  But what this law will do is turn every bank teller into a
> government informer and everyone with a bank account into a criminal
> suspect.
>
> In a free society, the government has no business asking where you get your
> money or how you spend it -- and politicians have no right to force your
> bank to monitor your account.
>
> But that's exactly what's going to happen, unless we can generate enough
> opposition before the FDIC's comment period expires on March 8.  Outraged
> Americans have already flooded the FDIC with over 16,000 comments against
> the Know Your Customer regulation -- but the agency hasn't backed down yet.
>
> Let's keep up the pressure.
>
> Please forward this e-mail to everyone you know who might be interested in
> helping, but please don't send it indiscriminately -- spam will only hurt
> our campaign.
>
> Then go to http://www.defendyourprivacy.com and sign the petition.
>
> Thank you.

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