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'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn (www.vice.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn::Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (3 children)

We keep going backwards in regards to digital privacy.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's been kinda the whole theme of the US lately.

[–] ironhydroxide 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

22+ years isn't what I'd consider "lately"

[–] maccentric 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You might when you’re older

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kissinger?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Holy hell, they said "older," not "antediluvian." 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Far more than that, they were fighting encryption through the 80s and 90s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Have we ever gone forward?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is the mission to make sure Osama bin Laden's long game was successful. He destroyed democracy and freedom exactly like he wanted. Now we have Republican Jihads. He won.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The terrorists won the moment air travel became a living hell.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

If you follow the EFF, there are occasionally small victories, but overwhelmingly no.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

What do I look like a shareholder?

[–] gravitas_deficiency -3 points 8 months ago

I’ll take “things that boomers don’t understand” for 400, alex.