At the end of the day people need to reconcile the fact that there is a tension between financial privacy and transparency for the sake of fighting crime. Addit

At the end of the day people need to reconcile the fact that there is a tension between financial privacy and transparency for the sake of fighting crime. Additionally, there is the fact that the implementation of policy is typically a messy affair, and the added complexity that the state may not be the “good guy” (take civil abuses of civil forfeiture in the US as an example) makes the whole topic one that where clear lines are hard to draw.