Jan 18, 2023
If you use a service like MoneyGram or Western Union to send someone over $500 in cash, your transaction is available to law enforcement in the U.S. without a warrant. All the police need to do to access this information is fill out a form online. Secretive program spies on Americans sending money - WSJDatabase aimed at fighting money-laundering is being used for bulk surveillance, says a concerned senator by RT.com Over 600 US law enforcement have accessed a little-known database tracking every money transfer above $500 for almost a decade, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday citing an investigation by Senator Ron Wyden. The Oregon Democrat is alarmed that Homeland Security used the tool to get six million records while looking for illegal immigrants. The Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC) is a nonprofit set up in 2014 by Western Union, as part of a settlement with the state of Arizona. Originally intended as a way