What SBV’s 86 Million Account Deactivation Means for Financial Privacy and Sovereignty, and What Are the Long-term Business Risks for International Entrepreneurs
SBV deactivated 86 million bank accounts; explore the privacy, sovereignty, and long‑term business risks for international entrepreneurs in Vietnam. Introduction The State Bank of Vietnam’s mass deactivation of roughly 86 million bank accounts for lacking linkage to a biometrically authenticated national digital ID is a watershed event for financial privacy and national sovereignty. International entrepreneurs, […]
Biometric Tracking in the UK: Civil Rights, Surveillance Risks, and Practical Defenses
Guide on how biometric tracking threatens privacy in the UK, plus practical defenses digital nomads and global entrepreneurs can use. Not that long ago we shared what was happening in Mexico with their biometric ID initiatives. Now we are discussing how biometric tracking threatens privacy in the UK and what digital nomads and global entrepreneurs […]
Mexico Biometric ID FAQ: The Legal Requirements for Digital Nomads
Explore Mexico Biometric ID Legal Requirements for Digital Nomads: key deadlines, required documents, and compliance tips to avoid fines. Are you a digital nomad planning to work remotely from Mexico? You may already know about visas and permits, but recent regulations now require biometric registration for stays longer than 180 days. This FAQ unpacks the […]
UK Surveillance State is Embarking on Murder Prediction Technology
UK surveillance state is embarking on murder prediction technology and it’s giving major CCP social credit score energy. The UK and China are really good case studies in how a surveillance state plays out and what that mission creep looks like. The UK is already under fire for its censorship of individuals simply sharing heterodox […]
Government Waste Runs Deep
Gross over regulation, massive expansion to bureaucracy, and opaque spending shows government waste runs deep, and it needs to be cut. Saying a government is wasteful or inefficient isn’t really groundbreaking. Universally, people acknowledge the bureaucratic nonsense that inevitably accompanies any government initiative. They understand that for every dollar in taxes they take, a percentage […]
FinCEN Expands Their Surveillance
FinCEN expands their surveillance by broadening what “suspicious” means, rather than define what the behavior is. March 17, 2025 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Any time there’s a “war on” something, you know that really translates into a heavier police and surveillance state. War on drugs? War on money laundering? War on terror? War […]
Government Isn’t a Proxy for Charity
Government isn’t a proxy for charity because not only does it fail profoundly at that task, it becomes a hotbed for fraud and waste. February 17, 2025 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The government isn’t a proxy for charity, because the moment people treat it that way it starts to behave like one. A […]
Starting 2025 Off With Some Freedom Wins!
Bad news is easy to find; but we are starting 2025 off with some freedom wins because they are worth celebrating. January 6, 2025 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP People left 2024 with some astoundingly depressing losses: That’s just a taste of some of the staggering numbers coming out of 2024. Never mind the […]
Argentina’s Past, Present, and Future
Argentina is experiencing a transformative moment under President Javier Milei, who is attempting extensive economic reforms after decades of decline. His administration has focused on job cuts, tax simplification, and deregulation, aiming to stabilize inflation and attract foreign investment, setting the stage for a potentially brighter economic future.
Some Changes are Coming to Google
The amount of lawsuits against Google, on privacy and antitrust are such that some changes are coming to Google, and they will be rather drastic. December 2, 2024 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Google is a massive digital ecosystem. In the advertising world, it’s a massive walled-garden with its own proprietary activations. It cannot […]
