‘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.
We keep going backwards in regards to digital privacy.
That’s been kinda the whole theme of the US lately.
Have we ever gone forward?
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.
The terrorists won the moment air travel became a living hell.
What do I look like a shareholder?
Apparently, as a nation, we’re supposed to be surprised that they’re trying to pass laws that “let” them do what they’ve already been doing for decades…
For anyone that still doesn’t know, this is already a thing for all US made (owned) hardware. Has been for 15 years+. This is expanding it to everything that would be sold on the market. You know phones are hotspots too… That’s right.
You know why the US is so against Huawei? Because they CANT spy on every packet like they can with a Cisco, Juniper, Ruckus, etc switch. And when those start to be installed in scale, it’s a problem for the intelligence collection. This is just a small change to make what’s already there more palatable in stages. So that in another decade when things become declassified fully and more publisized, Americans don’t believe it is an issue.
I’m sorry, a SWITCH being backdoored when they are 95% not exposed to the internet?
They pulled both bills due to backlash: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wkdg/fisa-surveillance-bill-congress-pulled.
Your voices do matter. Don’t ever drop your guard. Privacy will be a battle to stay vigilant over forever.
That’s a pretty idealist take in the grand scheme of things. We have hard data that public opinion has virtually no influence on what the law is.
https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba
If it’s something capitalists really want, it’ll get put into law. In this case, it’s possible they actually don’t care to give the government the ability to surveil the public better, so it might be one of the very few things where public backlash could stop it (would actually need data to support this, not just some anecdotes).
Trying to apply this to the broader sociopolitical climate and saying “your voices do matter” is just too reductive. If it’s the public vs. the capitalist class in American “democracy”, the capitalist class wins every time.
"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. "
i always hate these headlines, who the hell are those “experts”, same applies to the word “scientists”
