I'm not a techie, but there must be some way to turn this tech against them. How can we use flock cameras to track police in real time?

Your articles are nice and all, but without pointing to Monero for an actual solution they are worthless at best and fare mongering at worst resulting in apathy by people who don't know better.

@npub1r0gz...shk6 the part about linking identity and financial activity across more systems is what people skip past. once every rail talks to every other rail there is no opting out, and the fraud they claim to fight keeps running anyway. real question, is there any version of this roadmap where self custody and cash-like tools still survive, or is closing every exit the actual point?

Privacy has become a dirty word, but it remains something profoundly normal. Fraud is real and so are the risks created by linking identity, transaction history and bitcoin ownership. Privacy is the reasonable expectation that your personal life, your movements and your finances are not automatically open for inspection. FATF’s new fraud roadmap calls for more data to be collected on more people and shared across more agencies. We already know where this can lead: - exchange breaches - doxxed customers - wealth linked to home addresses - physical attacks All involving people whose details were sitting in compliance databases. You cannot leak what was never collected. Bigger databases do not stop criminals and more data does not equal greater safety. They create larger honeypots, with ordinary users often becoming the easiest targets. Data collection is now set to expand under the UK’s FATF Presidency. I wrote about where this roadmap could lead for Forbes. View quoted note →