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.
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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?
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.
That no doubt includes some encrypted data being preserved against some future date when it can be cracked.
This had always been true.