Comment on US lawmakers introduce surveillance reforms intended to curb FBI spying
toned_chupacabra@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Notice that the opposition to these scans happened only after a Senator was included in the warrantless dragnet.
The reforms introduced Tuesday reflect discomfort over the practice of warrantless scans, which are authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Its opponents were galvanized when the Office of Director of National Intelligence revealed in July that the FBI had improperly conducted searches for information *about a U.S. senator *and two state officials.
emphasis mine
varsock@programming.dev 11 months ago
reminds me of the John Oliver episode on Data Brokers where he started buying up data on senators in an effort to get better regulations about tracking data and aggregation bc that seems to be the only way they want to pass bills. Their interests > interests of the people they should be representing