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• yesenadam 6y ago
  Not an expert, not GP, but these don't seem to support what they said.. https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expired-now-what https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expire... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-215-expired-year-review-2020 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-215-expired-ye...
• rzz3 6y ago
  Weird that my comment was downvoted, I assumed this was public knowledge. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nsa-snooping/senate-vote-measure-reform-nsa-surveillance-n368341 https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nsa-snooping/senate-vote-m... EFF supported this initiative. It wasn’t “reform” at all; courts had already ruled mass telecom surveillance illegal under “general warrant” provisions of the constitution. The programs were being shut down. The FREEDOM act “fixed” this and reauthorized the program by requiring FISA warrants to target specific “persons”—but here’s the catch: “person” was defined as per the FISA Act, where “Verizon” and “AT&T” are “persons”. So this wasn’t reform, the net effect was the same, but now the government just needed a warrant for each telecom company rather than having authorization to just spy on all of them at once. Read the bill... I absolutely couldn’t believe anyone was calling this “reform”. As for EFF’s support of this horrible bill, link is here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/usa-freedom-act-passes-what-we-celebrate-what-we-mourn-and-where-we-go-here https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/usa-freedom-act-passes...