A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
Since banks and such track where individual bills go, in some cases it’ll lead very directly to you depending on how many hands it changed first. How long ago it was beyond maybe a week to a month (for security footage) isn’t that significant afaik.
Spending bills at stores to get change for them would break this method of tracking trivially, since stores generally don’t keep track of serial numbers.
Since banks and such track where individual bills go, in some cases it’ll lead very directly to you depending on how many hands it changed first. How long ago it was beyond maybe a week to a month (for security footage) isn’t that significant afaik.
Spending bills at stores to get change for them would break this method of tracking trivially, since stores generally don’t keep track of serial numbers.