House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US #Spy Program
The US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the #Section702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the #FBI to obtain a #warrant to access Americans’ information. #privacy#surveillance
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When will the two largest providers of secure encrypted email make it the default for messages sent between them to be securely encrypted? If even they can't manage it what hope is there for the rest of the email world?
The silent part out loud. Sign the petition. "A staffer at Turner’s closed door meeting told WIRED that when pictures of protestors were displayed in a slideshow, the message was: “Here are protesters outside of Chuck Schumer's house. We need to be able to use 702 to query these people.” #Section702#FISAhttps://act.demandprogress.org/sign/section-702-protestors/
🚨 Major news for #Section702 & #surveillance reform – A bipartisan group of Senators has introduced the SAFE Act, a strong reform bill that would require a warrant to stop abuse of U.S. person queries, close the #DataBroker loophole, & make major improvements to the FISA Court
technically, the extension is for four months, until April 2024. But the FISA court approves applications for a year, so any surveillance started in early 2024 will continue until 2025.
@drwho Not necessarily. In the short term, the huge split in the Republican party means that the NDAA's already not a slam-dunk, so throwing gasoline on the fire with FISA activism could potentially have an impact. It also adds to pressure on Speaker Johnson, who's under a lot of fire from Republicans for how badly he's handled this mess.
And even if they do the short-term reauth (which I agree is more likely than not), it's still very much an open question as to what happens next -- it could be anything from GSRA or PLEWSA (with significant reforms) to a straightforward longer-term reauth with minimal reforms as a "compromise" to the odious FFRA (which broadens the scope). So pressure now is also a preparation for the next battle.
Empathy, as always, is the real problem with the GOP. They are perfectly fine when it’s immigrants, liberals, gays, brown people, etc that suffer these laws. When angry white people get affected, then they are suddenly sad about it and suddenly were the whole time.
“Any entity that you visit as a customer, that provides Wi-Fi service, could be required to let the government tap into its equipment, and pull out entire streams of communications.”