Banks Share Customers’ Private Data in Violation of 4th Amendment Rights, Witnesses Testify

“The government can access these records without meaningful due process or the person ever knowing it happened,” Brian Knight of George Mason University said. 

Ranking member Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) speaks alongside House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) during a hearing with the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, in Washington, on July 20, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

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America’s largest banks are increasingly acting as surveillance arms of the federal government as well as enforcement agents for left-wing ideology, congressional witnesses asserted last week.