Who needs to know? Small businesses object as feds infringe on Americans' privacy.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The project began in 2021 by examining qualified immunity and continues in 2022 by examining various ways to improve law enforcement.
54% : The association sued, arguing, among other things, that FinCEN's rule violates the Fourth Amendment because it gives law enforcement access to business' private information without requiring a warrant.
47% : As the Supreme Court explained in the seminal 1886 case of Boyd v. United States, the Founders enacted the Fourth Amendment in response to the English Crown's use of dragnet law enforcement tactics, and they sought to bar "any forcible and compulsory extortion" of private information except through a warrant supported by probable cause.

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