"The US isn’t just reauthorizing its surveillance laws – it’s vastly expanding them." [Update: This is a much better, much more informative link.]
"The US isn’t just reauthorizing its surveillance laws – it’s vastly expanding them." [Update: This is a much better, much more informative link.]
The Senate voted late Friday to reauthorize a key surveillance authority, avoiding a lapse in the controversial program.
The first two paragraphs.
The US House of Representatives agreed to reauthorize a controversial spying law known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act last Friday without any meaningful reforms, dashing hopes that Congress might finally put a stop to intelligence agencies’ warrantless surveillance of Americans’ emails, text messages and phone calls.
The vote not only reauthorized the act, though; it also vastly expanded the surveillance law enforcement can conduct. In a move that Senator Ron Wyden condemned as “terrifying”, the House also doubled down on a surveillance authority that has been used against American protesters, journalists and political donors in a chilling assault on free speech.
Between growing labor militancy and the state’s inability to control the genocide narrative, proles need more boot on the neck.