Exactly: this is the warrantless mass-surveillance approach to combatting crime. But add a few buzz words about big banks, CEOs with hefty salaries not being held accountable, and drug cartels, and suddenly everyone's for it.

And it's overt surveillance, where privacy is blatantly criminalized, rather than the type of covert mass-surveillance we're accustomed to hearing about, where a 3 letter agency secretly deprives you of your privacy, showing you enough respect to not demand that you knowingly give it up.

So-called anti-money laundering laws are a complete and utter violation of democratic principles, namely privacy and due process, and create the kind of surveillance apparatus that puts the populace under the complete control of the state.