This approach of treating everyone like criminals is pervasive in current times. Look at all the cameras on the streets. The logging of all internet data. The CSAM crap on iPhones. Even security scanners in retail which have been around at least 20 years.
It’s the easy way out imo, instead of employing expensive labour to actually catch criminals, and somehow society has been convinced that it’s ok.
I do think it’s a gradient and not black and white. Retail security scanners - ok fine, cameras everywhere - why?
Remember about 10 years ago when Cyprus started confiscating money held in private bank accounts to settle government debts and the people holding cash kept their money because it was physically in their possession and harder to confiscate?
Remember earlier this year when people in Lebanon had to hold bank managers at gun point to try and withdraw money from their own accounts so they could buy basic goods as the economy collapsed?
The "CaSh hAZ nO PuRpOSe eXCePt fOR cRImE" crowd in this comment section have massive blind spots due to a general ignorance of monetary history. I'm not surprised politicians are laughing while taking advantage of it.
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property."
It’s the easy way out imo, instead of employing expensive labour to actually catch criminals, and somehow society has been convinced that it’s ok.
I do think it’s a gradient and not black and white. Retail security scanners - ok fine, cameras everywhere - why?