‘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.
Don’t know why they bother, they don’t seem to care about what’s legal anyway.
Its about pushing boundaries.
If a camera on every street corner is legal, just imagine what they are doing with that data.
Same thing with actionable data. If the goal is to just abduct you in a black helicopter and waterboard you, the law doesn’t matter. If the goal is to ruin your reputation and put you and other “enemies of the state” in prison, then you need a legal basis. Otherwise it becomes a huge kerfuffle and you become a martyr.
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.
That’s a pretty idealist take in the grand scheme of things. We have hard data that public opinion has virtually no influence on what the law is.
https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba
If it’s something capitalists really want, it’ll get put into law. In this case, it’s possible they actually don’t care to give the government the ability to surveil the public better, so it might be one of the very few things where public backlash could stop it (would actually need data to support this, not just some anecdotes).
Trying to apply this to the broader sociopolitical climate and saying “your voices do matter” is just too reductive. If it’s the public vs. the capitalist class in American “democracy”, the capitalist class wins every time.
"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. "
Literally 1984. Since when are the US of A a part of Oceania?
USA has always been at war with Eastasia.
No, the USA has always been at war with Eurasia. Oh wait sorry that was yesterday. You are right. The USA has always been at war with Eastasia. What were we talking about again? bb plusgood.
Comrade, I think you misspelled doubleplusgood
i always hate these headlines, who the hell are those “experts”, same applies to the word “scientists”
We keep going backwards in regards to digital privacy.
I’ll take “things that boomers don’t understand” for 400, alex.
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.