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Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark

posted by janrinok on Monday December 25 2017, @03:46AM   
from the freedom-or-security dept.

canopic jug writes:

Several of the programs Snowden revealed are authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act. The 2008 law was scheduled to sunset on December 31, but in a last-ditch effort Thursday, Congress extend its authority through January 19.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, believes that the authorization doesn't really expire until April, leaving lawmakers several months to either reform or strengthen the provision. Hanging in the balance is the legal framework the government largely relies on to conduct mass surveillance of foreigners, and Americans who communicate with them. Which makes it all the more concerning that the fight over Section 702's future has taken place largely in the dark.

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• Re:false equivalence (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday December 26 2017, @09:15AM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday December 26 2017, @09:15AM (#614250) Homepage

  Your "we must destroy this other thing" rant *PROVES MY POINT*.
  
  Society, education, and technology should advance so that members of all religions look at us and say "fuck this shit, I don't like being backward", in contrast to the current "Fuck those idiots, I'm proud to be different". Change from within, not without.

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

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