‘Eyes Everywhere’: Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn::Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.
We keep going backwards in regards to digital privacy.
That’s been kinda the whole theme of the US lately.
22+ years isn’t what I’d consider “lately”
You might when you’re older
Kissinger?
Holy hell, they said “older,” not “antediluvian.” 😆
Far more than that, they were fighting encryption through the 80s and 90s
Have we ever gone forward?
It is the mission to make sure Osama bin Laden’s long game was successful. He destroyed democracy and freedom exactly like he wanted. Now we have Republican Jihads. He won.
The terrorists won the moment air travel became a living hell.
What do I look like a shareholder?
I’ll take “things that boomers don’t understand” for 400, alex.
Apparently, as a nation, we’re supposed to be surprised that they’re trying to pass laws that “let” them do what they’ve already been doing for decades…
For anyone that still doesn’t know, this is already a thing for all US made (owned) hardware. Has been for 15 years+. This is expanding it to everything that would be sold on the market. You know phones are hotspots too… That’s right.
You know why the US is so against Huawei? Because they CANT spy on every packet like they can with a Cisco, Juniper, Ruckus, etc switch. And when those start to be installed in scale, it’s a problem for the intelligence collection. This is just a small change to make what’s already there more palatable in stages. So that in another decade when things become declassified fully and more publisized, Americans don’t believe it is an issue.
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Absolutely. I 100% prefer the Chinese to have all my data. I am a nothing person with no political power so if China wants to surveil me and train datasets with my data, cool. Because the alternative is the US and five eyes having that data and I absolutely do not want that.
Unfortunately it makes you look like the crazy uncle in the tinfoil hat if you try to bring it up. It’s so outlandishly crazy like a Hollywood movie people don’t believe it’s real.
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I’m sorry, a SWITCH being backdoored when they are 95% not exposed to the internet?
They pulled both bills due to backlash: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wkdg/fisa-surveillance-bill-congress-pulled.
Your voices do matter. Don’t ever drop your guard. Privacy will be a battle to stay vigilant over forever.
From the actual bill: https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1323
The bill enhances accountability for FBI and other government officials who fail to comply with the laws and rules governing FISA. For example, the bill:
- Holds FBI executive leaders accountable for FISA non-compliance, including by withholding promotions or compensation.
- Ensures accountability for FBI employees who conduct noncompliant U.S. person queries, including zero tolerance for willful misconduct and escalating consequences for unintentional non-compliance.
- Creates new specific criminal liability and administrative penalties and increases existing penalties for government officials who engage in a range of intentional misconduct related to FISA, such as leaking FISA-derived information or making a false declaration before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
That’s not from the bill; that’s from a press release.
escalating consequences for unintentional non-compliance.
Oops! Spied on you. Sooowwwyy. I’ll take a paid week off(to think about your nudes).
i always hate these headlines, who the hell are those “experts”, same applies to the word “scientists”
