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If the bank sees you carrying in a body to put in the vault, I would expect them to call the authorities. However, if the bank guarantees privacy of what they store in the bank, I don't expect them to be looking inside anybody's safe deposit box to see what is inside. It doesn't matter if it is money, personal documents, blackmail material, jewelry (stolen or purchased) or even body parts.

Investigating the contents of each safety deposit box, or even having the ability to do so is outside the scope of what a bank vault services are sold to do.

A bank vault, like encryption, sells protection. It is for all intents and purposes neutral. It can be used for good and can be used for bad. 95% of the time a bank vault or encryption is either being used for an ethically neutral or at worst ethically ambiguous use.

When any technology or product is used for bad it is a social failure. Crime will always exist. The quantity of crime committed can be mitigated by sound long-term policies that treat those causes that are statistically most likely to contribute to crime occurring in the first place.



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