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I understand that one can say that this is a good way of getting money back from people who are committing fraud, but I am always worried about putting to one side issues around due process. It is true that you could probably catch a lot of criminals if you put bugs in people’s houses and listened in to all their conversations—we would all know what they are about to do in terms of committing crime. Generally speaking, however, we do not do that sort of thing in a modern, free society because we are aware of the difficulties in relation to people’s privacy and rights—it is a pain in the neck living in a democracy; it is so much easier in China where you do not have to worry.