Odd that PayPal has not posted to this thread... In researching this topic I've found a number of references to the legality of government monitoring of purchases. It seems that this issue may be impacted by United States v. Jones. (note: I’m not saying it is specificly) In US v. Jones the Supreme Court found unwarranted monitoring via GPS locator to be non-constitutional. It can be argued that unwarranted financial monitoring in real-time provides like data. The FBI has tried, and failed, to make use of the Allwrits Act to circumvent personal device security of cellular phones, even after a crime was committed and the data was no longer “in transit” Thus it can be argued that even if your data is transmitted to an agency after a completed transaction is not constitutional without first obtaining a warrant of search and seizure. I’m not a lawyer and I don’t claim to be absolutely correct here, but I’ve written PayPal in an attempt to get my payment released and all future monitoring to cease without a warrant. We’ll see how that goes… Here are some research references for your awareness. http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/criminaljustice/wcc_newsletter_hotwatch.authcheckdam.pdf http://www.nesl.edu/userfiles/file/lawreview/Vol46/4/Davis%20-%20Final.pdf https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/celltracking/celltracking_decision.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2728372/Orenstein-Order.pdf
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