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'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn (www.vice.com)

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'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn::Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

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[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago

We keep going backwards in regards to digital privacy.

[-] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

That's been kinda the whole theme of the US lately.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

22+ years isn't what I'd consider "lately"

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

You might when you’re older

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Kissinger?

[-] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Holy hell, they said "older," not "antediluvian." 😆

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Far more than that, they were fighting encryption through the 80s and 90s

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Have we ever gone forward?

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

It is the mission to make sure Osama bin Laden's long game was successful. He destroyed democracy and freedom exactly like he wanted. Now we have Republican Jihads. He won.

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The terrorists won the moment air travel became a living hell.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 13 points 6 months ago

If you follow the EFF, there are occasionally small victories, but overwhelmingly no.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

What do I look like a shareholder?

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -3 points 6 months ago

I’ll take “things that boomers don’t understand” for 400, alex.

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