Congress renews warrantless digital spying program as part of $886 billion spending bill
Congress renews warrantless digital spying program as part of $886 billion spending bill
Section 702 will continue until April, when Congress will have another shot at seriously reforming a program that desperately needs it.
What a bunch of fucking bullshit, STOP. SPYING. ON. YOUR. OWN. CITIZENS. CUNT. BAGS.
It is completely unequivocally a violation of the god damn 4th ammendment. We do not need 1984 fucking big brother breathing down our necks all the time.
It's really weird to say, but I agree with Rand Paul on this issue. Found our 1% common ground.
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This is explicitly surveillance of foreign entities. The "backdoor" described is that your communications with foreign entities can be collected because the entire comm is collected.
You can disapprove of this program (I do, for other reasons), but it is not "1984"-style surveillance.
Yeah, it kinda is, whether you think so or not. Any spying that involves warrantless collection of citizens data is a 1984 style surveillance program, nevermind that there are literally NSA programs to do this very thing to spy directly on all citizens just cuz, what if they're terrorists or something?
The whole apparatus is disgusting, and I'm surprised to see people defending it in any sense at all.
Thank goodness you’re here to tell us how the restraint that three-letter agencies are known for is alive and well!
Unfortunately, it now falls on individuals to protect your online privacy. Get a VPN, make sure the websites you visit are encrypted, and even with all of that, I won't put into text anything incriminating. My wife calls me paranoid (and she's probably right), but there's no such thing as being too secure these days.
You never know who’s looking at your online activities and what kind of motivations they may have to find something incriminating. And it’s not just the now you have to worry about, but forever into the future because lots of private data is being warehoused for future analysis.
Now imagine the worst case scenario of our government during your lifetime, do you want that government to have a ton of records about all your life online and offline?
This had always been true.
Boooooooooooooo!
"All government is against liberty." - H. L. Mencken
If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.
So what type of spying is this? If I use Linux am I still susceptible?
The government can tap foreign communications without a warrant, so if you're speaking to someone they've tapped, they will potentially have access to that communication