Lawmakers Are Kicking Warrantless Wiretapping into Overdrive(gizmodo.com)
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Lawmakers Are Kicking Warrantless Wiretapping into Overdrive
https://gizmodo.com/lawmakers-are-kicking-warrantless-wiretapping-into-over-1851417659
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This article is from Thursday. The law passed over the weekend with hours before it was set to expire. None of the privacy concerns were addressed and they did the reading at the very last minute to ensure it would pass without enough time to debate or amend it.
This is why I just cannot take the "our democracy is under threat" bullshit seriously. Our "democracy" is a popularity contest where every 4 years a bunch of rich people lie to us for months to get elected and then do whatever their financial backers tell them to do.
Oh well. Hopefully nobody ever abuses these powers!
Oh well. Hopefully nobody ever abuses these powers!
This is dragnet surveillance by any plain reading of the situation. This should be illegal under existing laws barring law enforcement from dragnet surveillance.
>The law allows the U.S. intelligence community (most notably the NSA) to conduct “targeted surveillance” of people outside the U.S. with the “compelled assistance of electronic communication service providers,” when a government court deems it necessary for national security reasons.
How "compelled"? Would the government be able to force, say, Signal to do a MITM against some of their users?
How "compelled"? Would the government be able to force, say, Signal to do a MITM against some of their users?
Related:
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40056939
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40056939
Related:
The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40062271
The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40062271
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How is this not spying on American's?