https://decrypt.co/40284/us-homeland-security-can-now-track-privacy-crypto-monero This certainly isnt it, but monero definitely needs to be used carefully in order to achieve the privacy that most assume is just the default
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That's old fud. Nobody that I know of has been able to trace a monero transaction, I've never heard of a traced transaction used as evidence in court.
There are things that must be done carefully though, sure. You must use trusted remote nodes or your own node. You shouldn't reuse subaddresses. Besides that though the rest of it is automated, it's the default.