> Financial enforcement is empirically one of our most effective tools to combat organized crime. I'd love to read more on this position. > Really the only re

> Financial enforcement is empirically one of our most effective tools to combat organized crime. I'd love to read more on this position. > Really the only reason we don't do this is because of the Constitution. While the US is better about privacy than many other places, most of the developed world still manages to not be a surveillance hellscape without strong constitutional protections. Besides, the constitution does very little directly to protect privacy because the framers failed to anticipate technological advancement and the size of the future bureaucratic state... we have what we have largely because of jurisprudence that has read the constitution rather expansively-- which it's done so for the same reason that nations without constitutional civil liberties still largely respect individual privacy: it's a human right which we implicitly recognize.