Yea or Nay: Data-Mine Bank Records to Find Tax Evaders

The lower house of the Swiss Parliament voted Tuesday to reject a deal with the United States to transfer bank data from 4,450 American clients of UBS suspected of tax evasion...

What kind of data-mining is the IRS doing within the U.S.? The Right to Financial Privacy Act protects our personal banking data from government searches.[pullquote]However, should the government be asking for aggregate data from banks about customer account activity that could help them identify suspicious behavior?[/pullquote][poll id="8"]