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... (www.wired.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 2023 12:00
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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…::Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial surveillance program that they say poses an “alarming threat to civil rights.”

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Jwin@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 2023 12:57 next collapse

How many buzzwords can fit into one title?

solarvector@lemmy.zip on 29 Nov 2023 13:02 collapse

Needed to make sure they didn’t have room to name the legislation.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 2023 15:48 collapse

I’m thinking Kenneth. Bertha if it’s a girl. Slagathor if it’s a medical student previously named Debbie.

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RubberElectrons@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 2023 13:43 collapse

It’s section 702 folks.

MataVatnik@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 2023 14:45 next collapse

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 citizen 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 so its a query not a search LOL) and apparently it already held up in court cases before.

For those interested here it is:

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

RubberElectrons@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 2023 15:12 collapse

Fucking barf.

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trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Nov 2023 16:49 collapse

Thanks for the clarification. Title is word salad.

RubberElectrons@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 2023 16:59 collapse

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