A massive global data leak linked to IDMerit has exposed 1 billion personal records, including national IDs and emails, across the US, Europe, and Asia.
The core purpose of KYC - to make it harder to launder money, and for the ultra rich to hide away their ill gotten gains - is not evil, far from it.
The fact the very same people which benefit from a perception that KYC is evil and/or ineffective, are the same people making the decisions to penny pinch on security which directly lead to data breaches, is obviously a complete coincidence!
in how they carried out specific other crimes? yeah, it changed methodology at very least. it sounds like you don’t understand KYC. it was not targeted at sex trafficking. it’s aimed at financial crimes.
I was not equating those crimes. I was highlighting the fact that we live in multi-tiered legal and justice systems that are proportional to wealth.
HSBC enabled fraud for organized crime in the hundreds of billions, and they didn’t face even remotely equivalent consequences. Was anyone even criminally prosecuted?
How about the people only accept measures that impose great risk to the privacy of the working class once corporate and political criminals face the same level of “justice” and consequences as the working class? Why should consumers accept paper straws while corporations are free to increase plastic waste exponentially?
Terrorism as defined by whom? Because those protesting Israel are soon terrorists. Animal rights defenders. Environmental protesters especially opposing oil pipelines and the like, climate protesters, people protesting the police, etc.
This is going to get really bad, the mask is off, they aren’t pretending to operate government according to the rules, or to be believable. The terrorists they will be targeting are those protesting the plutocracy ass fucking people without their consent.
I agree that KYC isn’t inherently evil. But the way its been weaponized is.
For instance in the telecommunications space it make total sense for mitigating spam SMS messages and Robocalls.
But the carriers all sell your data for profit. They also don’t protect your data properly and are breached all the time. That’s malicious.
So no, I won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and agree its an oversimplification to simply call KYC evil. But I also don’t blame people when all they see is abuse and never a good and proper implementation that isn’t exploitative.
Truly knowing your customer might produce very different outcomes than the current compliance checkbox approach.
“I know Fred just sold his old car. The idea he suddenly has $12k in cash is not suspicious” or “Jane’s been talking about going to Montreal for momths. We should not block her card when it lights up there.”. That’s real KYC, but it requires human connection and human judgement, which doesn’t scale and doesn’t provide the right paperwork for demonstrating compliance with arbitrary mandates.
The core purpose of KYC - to make it harder to launder money, and for the ultra rich to hide away their ill gotten gains - is not evil, far from it.
The fact the very same people which benefit from a perception that KYC is evil and/or ineffective, are the same people making the decisions to penny pinch on security which directly lead to data breaches, is obviously a complete coincidence!
Bruh, the ultra rich have operated state sanctioned child rape islands for several decades. Do you really think KYC has any impact on their crimes?
If so, I have a bridge you might be interested in acquiring…
those crimes in specific? no.
in how they carried out specific other crimes? yeah, it changed methodology at very least. it sounds like you don’t understand KYC. it was not targeted at sex trafficking. it’s aimed at financial crimes.
I was not equating those crimes. I was highlighting the fact that we live in multi-tiered legal and justice systems that are proportional to wealth.
HSBC enabled fraud for organized crime in the hundreds of billions, and they didn’t face even remotely equivalent consequences. Was anyone even criminally prosecuted?
How about the people only accept measures that impose great risk to the privacy of the working class once corporate and political criminals face the same level of “justice” and consequences as the working class? Why should consumers accept paper straws while corporations are free to increase plastic waste exponentially?
KYC does nothing against rich people. Panama Papers came out and nothing happened. Law enforcement does not target rich people.
Don’t use that example. Look up consequences of Panama Papers. At least say that nothing happened in USA, land of the corrupt, home of the slaves.
Yep. KYC is to stop the movement of funds that could be used to undermine the system. A.k.a terrorism.
Terrorism as defined by whom? Because those protesting Israel are soon terrorists. Animal rights defenders. Environmental protesters especially opposing oil pipelines and the like, climate protesters, people protesting the police, etc.
This is going to get really bad, the mask is off, they aren’t pretending to operate government according to the rules, or to be believable. The terrorists they will be targeting are those protesting the plutocracy ass fucking people without their consent.
Exactly. Anything that undermines the billionaire narrative.
Also tax evasion.
I agree that KYC isn’t inherently evil. But the way its been weaponized is.
For instance in the telecommunications space it make total sense for mitigating spam SMS messages and Robocalls. But the carriers all sell your data for profit. They also don’t protect your data properly and are breached all the time. That’s malicious.
So no, I won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and agree its an oversimplification to simply call KYC evil. But I also don’t blame people when all they see is abuse and never a good and proper implementation that isn’t exploitative.
There’s also an execution problem.
Truly knowing your customer might produce very different outcomes than the current compliance checkbox approach.
“I know Fred just sold his old car. The idea he suddenly has $12k in cash is not suspicious” or “Jane’s been talking about going to Montreal for momths. We should not block her card when it lights up there.”. That’s real KYC, but it requires human connection and human judgement, which doesn’t scale and doesn’t provide the right paperwork for demonstrating compliance with arbitrary mandates.
There absolutely is. Way too many of these fuckers are still breathing.