Miles Kellerman is a financial expert writing on anti-money laundering topics. Recently he published the article Trump and the Future of Financial Surveillance. In his article he explains the interest of the state in the transactions of every citizen. States have obligated banks and other financial institutions to create a risk profile of each customer, monitor all transactions and submit suspicious activity reports (SARs) to the authorities.

He expects that the new American president will be interested in the possibilities of financial surveillance:

The real danger, therefore, is not so much that Trump softens regulations or undermines state agencies. It is, instead, that his administration repurposes the U.S. surveillance apparatus against whom they deem “suspicious.”

The author
Kellerman works in the Netherlands, more information on his False Positive website and on his personal site. He is working on a publication on financial surveillance:

We are in the midst of a global surveillance crisis. Our systems for detecting money laundering, market manipulation, and other financial crimes are failing. Surveillance Games argues that these failures can be attributed to a common historical cause: the decision by regulators around the world to outsource financial crime detection to the private sector. The book performs three tasks to tell this story. First, it presents a new way of thinking about the political economy of surveillance, one that emphasizes how outsourcing decisions in the past generate political contests, or Surveillance Games, over who should be responsible for monitoring our financial systems. Second, the book explores these dynamics in three pressing areas: money laundering, market manipulation, and cryptocurrency misconduct. Third, a radical new solution is proposed in which licensed detection agents are rewarded for spotting suspicious activity.