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Buried in the Section 702 reauthorization bill (RISAA) passed by the House on Friday is the biggest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act. Senator Wyden calls this power “terrifying,” and he’s right.
This bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history. I will do everything in my power to stop it from passing in the Senate.
NEW: House votes 273-147 to extend FISA Section 702 surveillance powers for two years.
After rejecting an amendment to bolster warrant requirement when spying involves US persons.
126 Rs and 147 Ds voted for the bill.
Now to Senate.
Deadline: April 19
If the bill becomes law, any company or individual that provides ANY service whatsoever may be forced to assist in NSA surveillance, as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored—such as routers, servers, cell towers, etc.
That sweeps in an enormous range of U.S. businesses that provide wifi to their customers and therefore have access to equipment on which communications transit. Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist’s offices… the list goes on and on.
It also includes commercial landlords that rent out the office space where tens of millions of Americans go to work every day—offices of journalists, lawyers, nonprofits, financial advisors, health care providers, and more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40062271
This is the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7888/text
This is the report introducing the controversial amendment: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/118th-congress/house-report/456
The amendment is the last item in the report, under this heading:
An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Turner of Ohio or His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes
This is the transcript of the session where the amendment was discussed and voted on: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-63/house-section/article/H2328-1
You can find the discussion within the text using this search term:
Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Turner
Oh neat. I was contemplating a reality where my company would be able to spy on me and it looks like this is that bill hell fucking yeah
Spoiler alert: If you're talking about your workplace, they already could. Don't do anything on work equipment, network, or systems (including any free/guest wifi they have) that you wouldn't want to have read by your boss or read out to you in a courtroom.
☝️ I don’t do any non-work related stuff on company equipment or networks. I never connect my personal phone to company wifi.
I pirate software on my work network for work because they won't pay for it. It's just one more step beyond pirating papers because our institution has stopped subscribing to journals...including the ones we repeatedly publish in.
It's cool though, ALL work related.