And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:52:41 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: re: know your customer the banking invasion of our privacy >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 4 > >I'm participating in an Internet campaign to stop a regulation which would >require your bank to spy on you, and I'd like to invite you to join me. > >We now have less than 20 days to contact the FDIC and demand that it kill its >proposed "Know Your Customer" rule. Please forward this message to any >friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, or other people you know who may be >interested, then go to http://www.defendyourprivacy.com and sign the petition. >It will be submitted directly to the FDIC. Plus, a copy will be sent to your >representative in the U.S. House and to both your U.S. Senators. > >The FDIC's Know Your Customer rule would force banks to "monitor" your >checking and savings account and report any "unusual transactions" to the >federal government. This frightening threat to your financial privacy would >force your bank to: > > * Discover your "source of funds" > > * Determine your "normal and expected > transactions" > > * Report any "suspicious activity" to federal > investigators > >The government claims it is trying to thwart money launderers and drug >dealers. But what this law will do is turn every bank teller into a >government informer and everyone with a bank account into a criminal suspect. > >In a free society, the government has no business asking where you get your >money or how you spend it -- and politicians have no right to force your bank >to monitor your account. > >But that's exactly what's going to happen, unless we can generate enough >opposition before the FDIC's comment period expires on March 8. Outraged >Americans have already flooded the FDIC with over 20,000 comments against the >Know Your Customer regulation -- but the agency hasn't backed down yet. > >Let's keep up the pressure. > >Please forward this e-mail to everyone you know who might be interested in >helping, but please don't send it indiscriminately -- spam will only hurt our >campaign. > > <A HREF="http://www.defendyourprivacy.com/cgi-bin/pmail.cgi"> </A>D ><A HREF="http://www.defendyourprivacy.com/">EFEND YOUR PRIVACY</A> > >Then go to http://www.defendyourprivacy.com and sign the petition. > >Thank you. >Sumer > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
