• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Strange that Snowden, of all people, is assuming the NSA is waiting for this bill to pass to do this stuff rather than them having done it for a very long time already.

    Does he really think the NSA isn’t already spying on people through things like public wifi?

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      7 months ago

      My understanding is this will make public operators liable to participate. Like, they have to have infrastructure in place to do the recording for the NSA.

      Like, they could mandate back doors in all equipment.

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    7 months ago

    I guess the policy of the Company I work for, that we don’t use any service hosted in the USA, is sticking around then.

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    7 months ago

    Doesn’t the government already do this with our cellphones since they pass through the cell towers?

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    7 months ago

    May I remind everyone of CALEA. Just in case your skim of the page makes you think it is only for phone/telecoms…

    In the years since CALEA was passed it has been greatly expanded to include all VoIP and broadband Internet traffic.

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      7 months ago

      The article is just really bad tabloid garbage

      1. Does not even show the section of this bill that it is talking about
      2. Source is just “Edward Snowden said a thing on twitter” (not shitting on Snowden, he’s done some great work. I’m shitting on the article)