Analyst argues financial surveillance mirrors wiretapping without consent, costing billions while failing to curb crime. He reveals how ZK tech can restore privacy while enabling targeted, judge-backed enforcement.

"Law enforcement can maintain a list of addresses that they have evidence or reason to suspect are problematic. You can prove in ZK that you never interacted with these addresses. You can even do so in retrospect. If you cannot produce such a proof, well, in that case (and only in that case), you will probably need to disclose those transactions to law authorities. In most cases, you have done so without knowing, and all is good. In the rare cases someone acted badly, well, that is a problem, and using the blockchain will be harder and harder. But that is overall a good thing."

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