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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 11 months ago (3 children)

We keep going backwards in regards to digital privacy.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You might when you’re older

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kissinger?

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Have we ever gone forward?

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago

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

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 13 points 11 months ago

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

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

What do I look like a shareholder?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -3 points 11 months ago

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