This is was the special secret FISA court was supposed to be - a check and balance for the people vs the overlords given unconstitutional search and seizure capabilities.
Unfortunately you will never be able to argue again for the whole 'it just for [insert horrible thing here] - we can trust the overlords, and there is even a 'verify oversight board for the people'
why? because we've already seen it used not for foreign terror, but also drugs and sex and speech. It's been abused and used as an excuse by yahoo, microsoft and all the others.
Even when dreamhost fought back for a bit, there is no way to fight it truthfully (they have all the data recorded already, just easier and faster to get it with a digitally delivered request.
Obama's peeps used it for lesser things, trumps people used it for lesser things, the anti-trump people used it for lesser things. It's been used and abused against the people and the politicians.
Even when several resigned from the citizen oversight positions - a sign that shit is totally wrong - nothing changed.
The whole thing reeks so bad it's made the effbeeeye stink from the top to their lawyers even. Some of the saddest things in our history imho.
Now they want more data. It's like a group of babysitters that have already killed several wanting more access to more babies.
With the current news cycle, I assumed this was cloudflare's tech peeps explaining how the apple csam scanning works. Sad/funny that any posting "the csam scanning tool" this week/month - I and maybe many others will assume it's about apple. Suggestion- change the title to "cloudflare's scanning / reporting of your internet traffic' - or something like that.
I gotta say - it would be good if someone could provide access to a lawyer via video conference, especially with this:
"You likely have an obligation to securely preserve certain information related to your report for at least 90 days in the case of an investigation. To ensure that access to the content is limited, take care not to store this information anywhere accessible to anyone but those within your organization responsible for legal requests. "
I mean - if you are located somewhere where this is required by law I guess you have to do it. But if you are somewhere where this it not required by law and you do it - then you are doing something that is very against the law (?)
If you all are going to reporting people and organizations for user generated content that could get the people and organization in some sort of double jeopardy with legal crap like this, I think it's time to start providing some legal counsel or something.
Is there a list of places that get into these requirements? countries? states? does it become a thing if you are hosted in place X and you have headquarters in place Y and you have staff working in place Z?
It's also not clear to me if the cloudflare auto-firewall blocking is set to block a url of a web page, or a whole web site, or the url that would be in an <img tag> or what exactly.
Suggest posting about false sense of security - as I think 'enabling this' via cloudflare some might feel they are protected from having thing posted.. but does this cover cartoons that are questionable for example? and from my understating these hash things would not cover newly created csam that has not been 'discovered and catalogued' by the nicmec, so it may be helpful, but it's not a blanket protection tool (right?)
I've read several stories over the years and seen at least one documentary where it's pretty clear they were doing the former. It's generally chalked up as a win, gets good press / pr - keeps the funds going in that direction, and keeps the average headline reader scared enough to be fine with pariot acts and similar things going.
I do not recall any stories of the latter.. perhaps there is one or some - and perhaps things have occurred that saved the X Y or Z and we'll never know - and that's great.
However I think it's high time that people paid more attention to the details of these "be afraid / keep sending us budgets" stories and see that many are fabricated just to check off a PR box.
9 out of 10 sex trafficking headline stories are the same, and similar.
It's not just the top level of the DOJ - the local law agencies use the same playbook (especially vice squads) for the same reasons. imho.
Unfortunately you will never be able to argue again for the whole 'it just for [insert horrible thing here] - we can trust the overlords, and there is even a 'verify oversight board for the people'
why? because we've already seen it used not for foreign terror, but also drugs and sex and speech. It's been abused and used as an excuse by yahoo, microsoft and all the others.
Even when dreamhost fought back for a bit, there is no way to fight it truthfully (they have all the data recorded already, just easier and faster to get it with a digitally delivered request.
Obama's peeps used it for lesser things, trumps people used it for lesser things, the anti-trump people used it for lesser things. It's been used and abused against the people and the politicians.
Even when several resigned from the citizen oversight positions - a sign that shit is totally wrong - nothing changed.
The whole thing reeks so bad it's made the effbeeeye stink from the top to their lawyers even. Some of the saddest things in our history imho.
Now they want more data. It's like a group of babysitters that have already killed several wanting more access to more babies.