Comment on A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur...

RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah yes, I heard multiple podcasts on it in the defense sector defending it. There is a lot of lobbying I’m favor of it being renewed. Allegedly it only targets foreign agents, essentially terrorist operating abroad but using our internet infrastructure, so we intercept their messages. FBI can make requests for this information if they have a credible threat, in the past the threshold for request was low so agents were using it for cases that shouldn’t have been used for. The dragnet of data collection is indiscriminate, so your data as a citicen is still being collected anyways. There is also some mental gymnastics on why the FBI doesn’t need a search warrant (because the data was already collected LOL) and apparently it already held up in court cases before.

  For those interested here it is:

  open.spotify.com/episode/5WVa0u04qWuqqtXBZHYUv0?s…

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fucking barf.

    End to end open source encryption for all!

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• trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks for the clarification. Title is word salad.

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You got it. Really dislike titles like that as well.

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