That website is an absolute eye cancer on mobile. Actual reading content is curtailed to a third of the screen. Its defaulted legitimate interest cookies include a bunch of predatory firms including Facebook (and I’m in the EU).
In one hand these publishers have just cause in complaining about companies like Google and Apple stealing their content, but they really are not helping themselves either. Their website are completely user unfriendly.
With that said:
The title sounds sinister.
Sure, there are abuses of power. You can disagree with policy of prohibition.
The DEA also has important job to do combatting really bad people. Because there is due process and because they don't just disappear people, they need to collect evidence. They can't walk in with a mic strapped to their lapel. A credit card mic seems pretty clever.
Let's think about possible applications of audio-video recorders camouflaged to look like something in the form factor of credit cards:
- Induce your target to apply for a certain credit/debit card, gym/movie/gallery/store membership, airline pass, then mail them a bugged card
- Blindly mail a $100 gift card to your target along with a plausible sounding cover letter about why they are receiving it
- Give your target a badge to wear when they are visiting your office so you can hear and see what they do when they're not in your presence
- Leave your bugged card on the table while having dinner with your targets at a restaurant to hear the conversation while you go to the restroom
- Substitute one of the targets legitimate cards with a bugged card via covert entry at the target's home or office
- Obtain the cooperation of the target's employer or health club to swap their usual ID card for a bugged ID card
- With the cooperation of the target's bank or credit card issuer or insurance provider, send the target a replacement card or "upgrade" card which is now bugged
- Issue a bugged driver's license whenever the target goes to renew their license. Or send them a fine by mail to force them to visit the driver licensing office and then invent a reason to reissue the target's driver's license when they visit
- Whenever someone applies for or renews a Global Entry, Sentri, or Nexus card, issue a bugged card if they are on the target list