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A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur...

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A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur... - Lemmy.World

A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur…::Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial surveillance program that they say poses an “alarming threat to civil rights.”

Show threadRubberElectronsNov 29, 2023
It’s section 702 folks.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 - Wikipedia

Show threadMataVatnik

Ah yes, I heard multiple podcasts on it in the defense sector defending it. There is a lot of lobbying I’m favor of it being renewed. Allegedly it only targets foreign agents, essentially terrorist operating abroad but using our internet infrastructure, so we intercept their messages. FBI can make requests for this information if they have a credible threat, in the past the threshold for request was low so agents were using it for cases that shouldn’t have been used for. The dragnet of data collection is indiscriminate, so your data as a citizen is still being collected anyways. There is also some mental gymnastics on why the FBI doesn’t need a search warrant (because the data was already collected so its a query not a search LOL) and apparently it already held up in court cases before.

For those interested here it is:

open.spotify.com/episode/5WVa0u04qWuqqtXBZHYUv0?s…

Why 702 is America’s most valuable intelligence program: Interview with the FBI

Listen to this episode from Geopolitics Decanted by Silverado on Spotify. Dmitri Alperovitch sits down with Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of FBI's Cyber Division, to discuss why FISA Section 702 is by far the most valuable intelligence program in the US government's arsenal and is responsible for the majority of the most valuable intelligence the country collects. In this episode, Vorndran provides some examples of 702 successes including disrupting attempted assassination plots of American officials by a foreign country and identifying the perpetrator of the Colonial Pipeline hack and recovering the paid ransom. Vorndran also highlights compliance issues that the FBI has faced with the program and what it is doing to address them going forward.

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Nov 29, 2023 at 2:45pmWeb
Show threadRubberElectronsNov 29, 2023

Fucking barf.

End to end open source encryption for all!