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(snip)"we were not surprised to learn just this, following the latest report from Germany's Spiegel that "The National Security Agency (NSA) widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions" and has even created an internal branch titled appropriately enough "Follow The Money" (FTM). Once collected, the data then flows into the NSA's own financial databank, called "Tracfin," which in 2011 contained 180 million records. Some 84 percent of the data is from credit card transactions.
Stated simply: every time you "charge it" and a credit card is swiped, literally or metaphorically, the NSA knows all about it and if it triggers a specific filter, congratulations: the NSA will be tracking your every transaction in perpetuity.
Further NSA documents from 2010 show that the NSA also targets the transactions of customers of large credit card companies like VISA for surveillance. NSA analysts at an internal conference that year described in detail how they had apparently successfully searched through the US ]complex transaction network for tapping possibilities.
(snip)"But while collecting credit card data was to be expected, what is even worse is that the NSA has also secretly planted itself in the nexus of the entire global USD-intermediated financial transactions system courtesy of SWIFT.
The NSA's Tracfin data bank also contained data from the Brussels-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a network used by thousands of banks to send transaction information securely. SWIFT was named as a "target," according to the documents, which also show that the NSA spied on the organization on several levels, involving, among others, the agency's "tailored access operations" division. One of the ways the agency accessed the data included reading "SWIFT printer traffic from numerous banks," the documents show.
(snip)"But even intelligence agency employees are somewhat concerned about spying on the world finance system, according to one document from the UK's intelligence agency GCHQ concerning the legal perspectives on "financial data" and the agency's own co-operations with the NSA in this area.
In other words, America's unsupervised uber spies, when not checking in on their former significant others, spend the bulk of their time tracking who is buying what, where, and with whose money.
They also know how much anyone in the world has spent on credit card-based purchases, what the source of that money is, and what the purchase was. In other words: absolute monetary and financial surveillance.
And since SWIFT is involved, it likely also means a full blanket coverage of who buys what "(snip)
Vamp can confirm this, but it is my understanding that SWIFT is the international clearinghouse for bank to bank funds transfers. Thus between across the border bank transfers, and across the border credit card company transfers, and across the border checks, a few possible take-aways from the above may be ...
- camgirl payments from 'offshore' webcam hosts are in the NSA's database
- camgirl payments via debit / credit card based payment processing services are in the NSA's database
- customer credit card charges for webcam host services are in the NSA's database
What isn't mentioned is what the NSA actually does with this financial info, and who the NSA might share that info with ! Obviously, the NSA and the IRS have a strong connection, since this connection was the recent topic of news stories and a congressional hearing.
It also pretty well goes without saying that domestic credit card charges are being similarly monitored, which might be a factor for dancers working in clubs where customer credit card charges comprise a substantial amount of the clubs' / dancers' earnings.
The bottom line of all this seems to be that formerly 'anonymous' camgirl earnings from offshore webcam hosts who were known not to issue 1099's to the IRS may not have been all that 'anonymous' after all .....
It also remains to be seen what effect, if any, the known tracking of webcam and strip club customer credit card spending may affect the future spending habits of those customers.



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