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You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture.
That's where police can seize your property and cash without first proving you committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting you, as long as they suspect that your property is somehow tied to a crime.
Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards.
It's called an ERAD, or Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and state police began using 16 of them last month.
Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.
"We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting," Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. "We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's some way that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."
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News 9 obtained a copy of the contract with the state.
It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday June 09 2016, @07:16PM
BINGO
This is why you should refuse to identify yourselves to bankers with your card & pin number. It sounds more secure, but isn't. The reality is that the banker has completely and utterly abdicated their responsibility to authenticate you, and instead will treat anyone who can obtain the pin number as the valid account owner.
Who's fault is it when authentication fails?
PIN: Well, it's the customers fault obviously. They should be more careful with their pins.
BANKER: Well, I thought it was Bob, I mean it looked a like a Bob. Uhhh, no I didn't ask for two forms of ID, uhhh no I didn't ask for the last transaction against the account.....
They've been attempting to entirely shift the burden of authentication away from themselves and to the customer for some time now.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2016, @12:39PM
Whenever I see a teller at my bank I always have to swipe, enter pin, and then show ID. Maybe its the type of account I have or something, but they always check my ID, and usually type the number into the computer.