Buried in the House intelligence committee’s #FISA “reform” bill, scheduled for a floor vote tomorrow, is the biggest expansion of US #surveillance since the Patriot Act.
Currently the govt can compel companies that have direct access to comms like phone, email, & texting providers, to assist in surveillance by turning over comms of targets.
Under Section 504 of the House Intel committee’s bill, any entity that has access to equipment on which communications may be transmitted or stored, such as an ordinary router, is fair game.
So hotels, libraries, coffee shops - anyone who offers wifi could be required to config systems to provide govt access to comms.
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