'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn (www.vice.com)

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It expands the definition of “electronic communication service provider”—the entities which the government can compel to assist in surveillance, such as an email service—to include any “equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store such communications.”

“Any business that has access to ‘equipment’ on which communications are stored and transmitted would be fair game,” the organizations’ joint statement reads. “That means hotels, libraries, coffee shops, and other businesses that provide wifi could be compelled to serve as surrogate spies, structuring their systems so that they can give the government access to entire communications streams. Conscripting U.S. business into intelligence agencies’ service was a feature of the 2007 Protect America Act; Congress explicitly and appropriately rejected this feature one year later when it passed Section 702.”

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 27 points 10 months ago

There's still room to expand?

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

just give me my NSA agent's name so I can send pics of my hog directly to him

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nice to have a Democracy with an absolute 0% satisfaction rate. Just zero beneficial decisions ever, with no outside public input, and you learn about every decision once it's already passed. This is exactly what "winning the Cold War" with no future goal in mind except starting new ones looks like. Anyone who claims to love this system is definitely telling the truth and surely not hiding anything.

And this will definitely last another century unopposed, because we all know European ships are unsinkable. Nothing ominous about the number 250.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

If you don't want things like this to happen, you need to vote for the-democrat

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

What's the answer? End-to-end encryption? Mesh networks? Other stuff I don't know about yet?

[-] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

this one weird trick

[-] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Seconding this. If you are planning anything genuinely cool, coordinate over signal or better yet in person a meeting time for those involved, then meet in a public park or something similar without any electronics on you.

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] shath@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

shocked-pikachu

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

yeonmi-park

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Yeah, but you see, solving climate change would be authoritarian."

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Just pass the:

America-Israel Partnership to Abandon Censorship

We'll call it the AIPAC law.

Through extensive spying, mostly domestically*, Congress ™️ will ensure that we, the Great American People, are free from censorship due to nations like China, Russia or the terrorist group Hamas.

*anything deemed "useful but questionably ethically and legally wrong" will be forwarded to our Israeli allies for further processing, well outside US jurisdiction and thus "not our problem"