Lawmakers in the US have passed legislation that reauthorizes and expands the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), rejecting opposition by privacy advocates. The bill now goes to President Biden, who is expected to sign it into law. TechCrunch reports: https://flip.it/lJjvqh #Tech#Technology#USA#USPolitics#FISA
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We all deserve privacy in our communications. Part of that is imposing limits upon the government’s ability to collect and access them. That’s why it’s critical to reform Section 702, the mass surveillance law that creates an end run around our constitutional rights and a back door for the government to query our...
The real game plan of the #Christofascists is this, even though I doubt that many of them'll have read the books.(I think I'm missing out on 2.)
Quiz time:
Who is the only author with two novels in this dystopian Venn diagram? 😉
NEW: Senate plans to vote tomorrow on a #FISA provision that legal experts say will greatly expand a US wiretap program, forcing whole new categories of businesses to spy on Americans communicating with people overseas.
Critics on Capitol Hill are calling it the "Stasi provision"
The problem for #SpeakerJohnson is, once that motion gets called it’s going to be very difficult for the wing nuts to vote to save him because their base in those districts have been so radicalized by MAGA media that they will get serious blowback back home. Not having to vote helps them
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Massie: I asked him to resign.. The motion is going to get called. And then he's going to lose more votes than Kevin McCarthy
@GottaLaff The platform is just bots. I signed up for a new account today and already I have the most right-wing posts in my feed. It's a Nazi hellscape.
In addition to the key issue of U.S. person queries, the House passed several problematic amendments advanced by the House Intelligence Committee to actually expand#FISA#Section702#surveillance
[EFF] Tell the U.S. Senate: STOP RISAA, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion (act.eff.org)
We all deserve privacy in our communications. Part of that is imposing limits upon the government’s ability to collect and access them. That’s why it’s critical to reform Section 702, the mass surveillance law that creates an end run around our constitutional rights and a back door for the government to query our...