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> it's going to be challenged in courts etc How are those challenges going? Any courts out there overruling FISC? > In Russia, there's a public law that manda
by Sacho 9y ago
> it's going to be challenged in courts etc
How are those challenges going? Any courts out there overruling FISC?
> In Russia, there's a public law that mandates ISPs to install surveillance equipment that federal law enforcement agency can use basically at will
It's public law that created FISC(FISA @ 1978) and it's public law(Patriot Act, third party doctrine) that gave them the power to authorize the NSA's surveillance.
- int_19h 9y agoWell, last time this came up, we did get legislation that did something. Not anywhere as much as it should have, but there's that, at least. Ditto FISC - it might be rubber-stamped warrants, but at least there's a warrant, by an actual judge. The practical degree of Internet surveillance, and, - especially! - censorship is still vastly lower in US than it is in Russia.