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> Do you also call it a "privacy disaster" when your bank account requires your name and address so they can report interest payments to the government? Or when Robinhood/Schwab/Vanguard/Etc send the IRS a list of all your stock transactions for the year in a form 1099?

"Disaster" is a loaded word, but of course it would be a huge privacy improvement if they didn't!



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