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NSA has stopped collecting location data from US cellphones without a warrant
- quantified 7y agoRight.
- loons2 7y agoSure they have. > Next month, provisions of the Patriot Act — specifically, Section 215 — are set to expire, raising questions about potential reforms. “Now that Congress is considering reauthorizing Section 215, it needs to write a prohibition on warrantless geolocation collection into black-letter law,” Wyden said in a statement. How about just LET it expire!
- mindslight 7y agoThere is still no mention of any of the conspirators being charged with wiretapping and going to jail - aka the rule of law. I didn't think that after being caught, criminals could just pinky-swear to stop committing crime and be free to walk away. But apparently being on the DC-dole gives you that privilege. So there is no disincentive to just create a new illegal anti-American program that will take its own time to get through the courts.
- java-man 7y ago"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
- kova12 7y agoYou forgot to put quotes around the word "stopped"
- olliej 7y ago“NSA has stopped breaking the law and violating the constitution”
- jmpman 7y agoLet me guess. They’re collecting the data, but hashing the cellphone unique identifier into some form that cant be reversed without a warrant?
- beatgammit 7y ago"can't" At this point, I don't trust the NSA at all. There's always some wiggle room in anything they say, and I'm fed up with it. This isn't how a free society operates...