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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1138 days ago
The commercial bank has something called a "privacy policy" in which they explain that they will choose not to respect my privacy. A government entity isn't allowed to do that. There are actually stricter laws for government invasions of privacy than corporate.

To your concern that these three-letter spooks will spy on you: what would they do that they're not already doing? That isn't to excuse the spying; I'm just pointing out that these are separate issues. Tackle the fact that the NSA compiles all unencrypted HTTP traffic separately from the fact that JP Morgan Chase knows my financial history and doesn't have to care about keeping it private per my idea of private.

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So are ypu saying the constitution and its privacy protections are totally useless?
I'm intending to say the opposite. My point is exactly that a government-run bank affords citizens this constitution-protected privacy because the bank would explicitly be a government entity.

(Unless you're asking whether the protections are useless against corporations. Then yes, they're useless.)