@@@@@ it will bloody function off Karim when the relevant chickens blow on top of the dreadful abbey @@@@@
francoi...@spirtech.com
# country's constitutional guarantees for "secrecy of any means of communi-
# cations." According to activist Toshimaru Ogura, Japanese cops are
# modeling their proposals on US wiretap law, specifically the 1994
# Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The NSA helped
# sculpt CALEA's language, which begs the question: Is Japan's wiretap bill
# another one of the NSA's covert operations?
* "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
* http://www.aci.net/kalliste
*
* The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the government
* corporation that insures deposits at U.S. member banks. The FDIC
* improvement act of 1991 required the FDIC to study the costs and
* feasibility of tracking every bank deposit in the U.S.
*
* The notion was it was necessary to compute bank deposit insurance
* requirements in real time.
*
* Not everyone thought this was a good idea. The American Bankers'
* Association noted it was inconceivable that such data would "be
* used only by the FDIC in deposit insurance coverage functions."
*
* Even though the FDIC argued against it, FinCEN then proposed in
* its draft report to Congress in June 1993 a "Deposit Tracking
* System" (DTS) that would also track deposits to, or withdrawals
* from, U.S. bank accounts in real time. FinCen is the Financial
* Crimes Enforcement Network agency.
# Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, January 1989 issue
#
# Al Bayse, Assistant Director of the FBI, said the FBI has developed an
# artifi