This law is Unconstitutional.

But no one cares, so they just keep doing in.

No Fatmerican is going to complain, so they just keep doing it.

Axios:

A key group of bipartisan lawmakers Tuesday introduced their blueprint for renewing a controversial surveillance tool before it expires at the end of the year.

The bill marks the first piece of legislation that lawmakers have introduced in the year-long battle to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

The program’s expiration, intelligence officials have warned, would impede investigations into ransomware, terrorism and other online crimes.

FISA Section 702 allows intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless surveillance of non-American citizens outside the U.S. during investigations.

But some privacy hawks, progressives and conservatives have expressed concerns about how the program inadvertently collects texts, emails and other communications from U.S. citizens who are talking to foreigners abroad.

The information collected through Section 702 requests is stored for several years in a searchable database that intelligence agencies can later access in other investigations.

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), along with Reps. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act on Tuesday.

Separately, the NSA and CIA are still spying on everything you do. In theory, that doesn’t matter because it can’t be used it court, while this FISA bullshit can be used in court and was used against a bunch of members of the Trump Administration.

The NSA/CIA mass data collection, which is separate and can’t currently be used in court, must have some purpose. They are probably using it for blackmail, and then also using it in their AI models of human behavior, as well as for other intelligence purposes.

However, I expect they will use it for some other purpose in the future. Probably, they will start allowing it to be used in court.

Regardless, as a totally separate issue, the “legal” spying by the FBI is out of control. It’s incredible that no one blinks when both parties say they “need” to do this to you.

Huge:

CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence." https://t.co/qF4OowjDku

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 11, 2022

These reports raise serious questions about what information of ours the CIA is vacuuming up in bulk and how the agency exploits that information to spy on Americans.

This invasion of our privacy must stop.

— ACLU (@ACLU) February 11, 2022

One of the biggest threats to our democracy and values is the government not knowing everything you are doing at any moment.

For example, you could be insurrecting or spreading disinfo about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines or the IQ or black people – the government needs to know that, in order to protect our values and who we are.

From the US Senator Ron Wyden website:

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., both members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for new transparency about bulk surveillance conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency, following the release of documents that revealed a secret bulk collection program and problems with how the agency searches and handles Americans’ information.

Wyden and Heinrich requested the declassification of a report by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on a CIA bulk collection program, in a letter sent April 13, 2021. The letter, which was declassified and made public today reveals that “the CIA has secretly conducted its own bulk program,” authorized under Executive Order 12333, rather than the laws passed by Congress.

The letter notes that the program was “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight that comes from [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] collection.”

“FISA gets all the attention because of the periodic congressional reauthorizations and the release of DOJ, ODNI and FISA Court documents,” said Senators Wyden and Heinrich in response to the newly declassified documents.  “But what these documents demonstrate is that many of the same concerns that Americans have about their privacy and civil liberties also apply to how the CIA collects and handles information under executive order and outside the FISA law.  In particular, these documents reveal serious problems associated with warrantless backdoor searches of Americans, the same issue that has generated bipartisan concern in the FISA context.”

I dunno, man.

We’ve kinda known about this whole “warrantless and unwarranted spying” thing for a while now. The consensus seems to be that the American people simply don’t care.

It’s such a sick voyeuristic porno society that a lot of people probably get off on the idea that the government is using their webcam to watch them jack off.

A large percentage of the American people are decidedly anti-freedom.

The Republicans supported this against Moslems, now leftists support it against white people. There are no principles anymore – just ideologies.

Half of the Twitter responses to this are attacks on ACLU, the other half are “nothing to hide” NPCs.

Invasion of privacy, eh?

This you, bro? pic.twitter.com/MHjOS4NKvv

— Based Porter Wagoner (@el_gabacho_) February 11, 2022

So they spy. They keep us safe from terrorists. They can not use any of this in a court of law. I honestly do not care unless politicians are being blackmailed or media etc. what are they doing with it? That’s the important question.

— Very Legal and Very Cool (@Democracy_Saves) February 11, 2022

I mean. They can go ahead and spy on me. I live the most boring life. I got nothing to hide 🤷‍️

— Maren (@amfjelde) February 11, 2022

If you aren’t doing anything wrong you’ve got nothing to worry about, no?

— Jason Jones (@JasonJo82644078) February 11, 2022

This is a troubling reveal. However, the ACLU thinks men have uteruses and vaginas and menses and are entitled to Women’s rights. I won’t be supporting the ACLU anytime soon. Who else is standing up to the CIA lately?

— John@NGLF (@JohnWnglf) February 11, 2022

Oh stop acting so high and mighty. You guys spy and hack conservatives using non-profit money.

— White Spiritual Boy (@white_spiritual) February 11, 2022

If you have nothing to hide, who cares, you have nothing to worry about.
It’s for the safety and greater good.

Isn’t that what y’all have been saying for 2 years?

— 1stAmendmentPete (@1stPete) February 11, 2022

Seems to me this is atrocity propaganda.

What does China want with random Westerners’ information?

Does it make sense that they would risk getting caught doing this?

Forbes:

As I reported on June 23, Apple has fixed a serious problem in iOS 14, due in the fall, where apps can secretly access the clipboard on users’ devices. Once the new OS is released, users will be warned whenever an app reads the last thing copied to the clipboard. As I warned earlier this year, this is more than a theoretical risk for users, with countless apps already caught abusing their privacy in this way.

Worryingly, one of the apps caught snooping by security researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk was China’s TikTok. Given other security concerns raised about the app, as well as broader worries given its Chinese origins, this became a headline issue. At the time, TikTok owner Bytedance told me the problem related to the use of an outdated Google advertising SDK that was being replaced.

Well, maybe not. With the release of the new clipboard warning in the beta version of iOS 14, now with developers, TikTok seems to have been caught abusing the clipboard in a quite extraordinary way. So it seems that TikTok didn’t stop this invasive practice back in April as promised after all.

Worse, the excuse has now changed.

Okay so TikTok is grabbing the contents of my clipboard every 1-3 keystrokes. iOS 14 is snitching on it with the new paste notification pic.twitter.com/OSXP43t5SZ

— Jeremy Burge (@jeremyburge) June 24, 2020

According to TikTok, the issue is now “triggered by a feature designed to identify repetitive, spammy behavior,” and has told me that it has “already submitted an updated version of the app to the App Store removing the anti-spam feature to eliminate any potential confusion.” In other words: We’ve been caught doing something we shouldn’t, we’ve rushed out a fix.

TikTok also told me that the platform “is committed to protecting users’ privacy and being transparent about how our app works.” No comment on that one. TikTok added that it “looks forward to welcoming outside experts to our Transparency Center later this year.”

When I covered the original TikTok clipboard issue, the company was adamant it was not their problem and related to an outdated library in their app. “The clipboard access issues,” a spokesperson told me, “showed up due to third-party SDKs, in our case an older version Google Ads SDK, so we do not get access to the information through this (presumably they do but we cannot speak to that). We are in the processes of updating so that the third-party SDK will no longer have access.”

TikTok assured me it was being fixed and questioned coverage that suggested this was an issue. “It’s a Google Ads SDK issue,” they assured again in a later email, “so we need to make the change in which version of that SDK we use. TikTok does not get access to the data, but we are updating regardless to resolve it.”

Now Apple’s welcome iOS 14 security and privacy changes have caught them red-handed still doing something they shouldn’t. Something they said was fixed. TikTok isn’t alone—other apps will now need to change deliberate or inadvertent clipboard access. But TikTok is the highest profile and most totemic of the apps caught out, given its prior coverage and wider issues.

The most acute issue with this vulnerability is Apple’s universal clipboard functionality, which means that anything I copy on my Mac or iPad can be read by my iPhone, and vice versa. So, if TikTok is active on your phone while you work, the app can basically read anything and everything you copy on another device: Passwords, work documents, sensitive emails, financial information. Anything.

Earlier in the year, when TikTok was first exposed, the security researchers acknowledged that there was no way to tell what the app might be doing with user data, and its abuse was lost in the mix of many others. Now it’s feeling different. iOS users can relax, knowing that Apple’s latest safeguard will force TikTok to make the change, which in itself shows how critical a fix this has been. For Android users, though, there is no word yet as to whether this is an issue for them as well.

Maybe it’s real – I don’t know.

What I do know is that the US government already spies on everyone using every app. In 2014, they were revealed to be spying on people using Angry Birds.

The media doesn’t report on that anymore.

The Forbes article even admits that other apps are doing the same thing, but TikTok doing it is important because they’re Chinese. Why is that important? Because it is better to give your data to spies in your own country, and the Jews, than to give it to the Chinese? Or because the media and government have an agenda against China?

Which are you more worried about: the US government having all your personal data or the Chinese government having all your personal data?

It’s not a difficult question.

What are the Chinese going to do with the data? Privacy invasion is bad, but the US government complaining about privacy invasion is insane.

Here’s the analogy:

A cold-blooded murderer kills a man in cold blood, shoots him right in the head in the middle of the street. He’s standing over the body, laughing maniacally. Then, a small child comes up and starts poking the body with a stick, and the man loses his mind, starts screaming that the child is evil, then goes around shouting, “someone has to stop this evil child, he’s poking this innocent dead body with a stick!” 

It is incoherent.

Every time you hear anything about China, you have to understand that the Jews have a plan to start a war with China. I am not a China defender. I am just telling you, we do not need a war with China. China is not a threat to us. The US government/media that is using a mob of black people and white women to tear down our history, to dehumanize us, to prepare us for a genocide – that entity is our enemy.

Let’s just deal with the fact that the government and media are literally preparing to use a mob to slaughter us first, okay? Then we can talk about the Chinese.

Who’s really watching who here?

The FBI has stated the obvious in an attempt to appear to be working in favor of the American people.

CNN:

In a pre-holiday message to consumers, an FBI field office is warning that “smart TVs” — televisions equipped with internet streaming and facial recognition capabilities — may be vulnerable to intrusion.

…

“Next-gen smart TVs and devices run complex software, have Internet connections, and often have integrated sensors like microphones,” says Matt Tait, cybersecurity expert and former analyst at GCHQ, the British signals intelligence service. “These features enable things like internet streaming services and voice-commands, but can unfortunately be subverted by hackers if the device gets compromised.”

“At the low end of the risk spectrum, they can change channels, play with the volume, and show your kids inappropriate videos,” the FBI warning states. “In a worst-case scenario, they can turn on your bedroom TV’s camera and microphone and silently cyberstalk you.”

In order to guard against possible intrusion, the FBI recommends that smart TV owners educate themselves on their device’s security settings (available from a simple Google search), change default network passwords set by manufactures, and understand how to enable and disable microphones and cameras.

If a particular smart TV does not allow the disabling of cameras, the bureau says placing black tape over the camera is one basic and simple solution to shutting out prying eyes.

Tait warns it is also extremely important for consumers to promptly install software updates routinely pushed out by smart TV manufacturers.

“Generally, customers who keep their devices up to date won’t have too much to worry about,” Tait says. “But for people who are particularly worried, or who don’t want the new “smart” features, there is a simple solution to keep hackers out: unplug the device from your network.”

That’s a bit like saying that not using the device is a solution to keep hackers out.

It’s not just TVs that they should have warned about though; any device with similar capabilities is also vulnerable.

Namely:

• Laptops
• Smartphones
• Computers in general
• “Smart” home appliances
• AI assistant things like Amazon’s Alexa
• Pretty much anything with an internet connection

In fact, we know that smartphones are being used to spy on people in order to sell them stuff.

Sometimes it’s something people say out loud close to their phone, sometimes it’s something they searched for on the internet using their phone, and sometimes it’s even based on their phone’s location, but what people do with their phones and around their phones is definitely influencing the ads that they’re seeing.

If you’re doing sensible stuff, assume that these devices are being used maliciously.

Assume you are being watched.

…because you are.

It’s fair enough for the NSA to run a global spy network and then feed Israel information so they can carry out targeted assassinations. And to give them all of the private data collected on all American citizens through their massive illegal spy network.

Because, after all: the Holocaust.

RT:

Frustrated by a legal ban on sharing intelligence with Israeli operatives conducting targeted assassinations against Hezbollah, the NSA crafted a loophole giving them total access even to US citizens’ data, leaked documents show.

The Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU), the NSA’s counterpart in Tel Aviv, convinced the Americans to circumvent the legal prohibition on providing surveillance data for targeted assassinations during Israel’s 2006 war with Lebanon, according to the newest revelation from the archives obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Huh.

I wonder why the NSA would be frustrated that they’re not allowed to give assassination dox info to Israel?

Is the NSA run by Jews, I wonder?

Using the familiar rationale of “terrorism” to excuse cooperation they knew was illegal, the NSA and ISNU found a workaround using the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that provided the Israelis with all the intel they needed, according to an October 2006 article in the NSA’s internal publication.

“To ISNU, this prohibition [on sharing data for targeted killings] was contrary not only to supporting Israel in its fight against Hizballah but overall, to support the US Global War on Terrorism,” said an article in SIDToday. 

Its author, whose name is redacted, details the “late-night, sometimes tense discussions” he had with ISNU officials who believed they deserved an exemption from the US prohibition on abetting targeted killings.

The documents don’t include details of what “arrangement” was eventually worked out with the ODNI, but the Israeli military used American data to lay waste to Lebanon’s civilian population, much like the tech-enhanced US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, whose kill-counts swelled with civilian victims after they received access to NSA targeting data.

…

Apparently unsatisfied with the legal loophole the Americans had created for them, the Israelis sought and received full access to the NSA’s massive surveillance data troves after the war. A 2009 memorandum of understanding officially gave ISNU unrestricted access to the NSA’s raw intelligence data – including the phone and internet records of American citizens and citizens of third-party countries. Only American officials’ data was excluded, on an honor-system basis (with ISNU instructed to “destroy upon recognition” any records originating with a government official). Almost no strings were attached to this bonanza – the Israelis could even release the identities of Americans whose information had been scooped up in the dragnet, as long as they asked the NSA for permission first, and could pass the data on to anyone at all if the names were redacted.

So yeah.

Wow.

This is a lot worse than what Glenn Greenwald was talking about a couple of weeks ago, when he said the US is not being responsible with the information they turn over to Israel.

This is the NSA program that literally collects all digital communications. All of your SMS messages, emails, Skype communications, private Facebook and Twitter messages, etc., etc., etc.

You know.

The one James Clapper lied to Congress about and was never charged for doing so.

They also spy on the entire world, collecting all of everyone’s communications.

It is all just being handed over, wholesale, to the Jews.

Funny thing.

The media appears to not think this is a very important story.

No mainstream media outlet is covering it.

Just RT, The Intercept and Middle East Monitor.

So, imagine for a minute if the mainstream media gets its way, and everything other than their own content is banned from the internet – which is what they are already effectively calling for.

This information could conceivably be leaked, and no one would even know about it.

Even right now, very few people are going to hear that all of this massive spy data is being directly handed over to the Jews. Because most people probably think RT is Russian propaganda and probably don’t even know what The Intercept is.

Also note that all three outlets put the issue of helping them do targeted assassinations in Lebanon in the headline, rather than the much more egregious offense of handing over the private data of hundreds of millions of American citizens to a foreign country. At least with the assassination data, that is a situation where the US and Israel are military allies and they’re helping them with a war effort.

By why on earth would they be giving over all the private data of American citizens to this foreign country?

How could they possibly explain something like that? 

Because the only possible explanation is that America is a country that is completely controlled by Jews.

You stupid goyim demanded that billions of Moslems flood your countries, claiming you wanted them to “enrich your culture with vibrancy.”

Well, newsflash, goyim: they’re blowing everything up.

Now, we’re going to have to monitor everything you do and give your masturbation information to the food safety commission to stop you from being killed by enriching vibrancy.

AP:

In Britain, Big Brother just got bigger.

After months of wrangling, Parliament has passed a contentious new snooping law that gives authorities — from police and spies to food regulators, fire officials and tax inspectors — powers to look at the internet browsing records of everyone in the country.

The law requires telecoms companies to keep records of all users’ web activity for a year, creating databases of personal information that the firms worry could be vulnerable to leaks and hackers.

Civil liberties groups say the law establishes mass surveillance of British citizens, following innocent internet users from the office to the living room and the bedroom.

Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist credited with inventing World Wide Web, tweeted news of the law’s passage with the words: “Dark, dark days.”

The Investigatory Powers Bill — dubbed the “snoopers’ charter” by critics — was passed by Parliament this month after more than a year of debate and amendments. It will become law when it receives the formality of royal assent next week. But big questions remain about how it will work, and the government acknowledges it could be 12 months before internet firms have to start storing the records.

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The government says the new law “ensures powers are fit for the digital age,” replacing a patchwork of often outdated rules and giving law-enforcement agencies the tools to fight terrorism and serious crime.

In a move taken by few other nations, it requires telecommunications companies to store for a year the web histories known as internet connection records — a list of websites each person has visited and the apps and messaging services they used, though not the individual pages they looked at or the messages they sent.

The government has called that information the modern equivalent of an itemized phone bill. But critics say it’s more like a personal diary.

…

Officials won’t need a warrant to access the data, and the list of bodies that can see it includes not just the police and intelligence services, but government departments, revenue and customs officials and even the Food Standards Agency.

…

Some aspects of the new law remain clouded by secrecy. Not all internet companies will have to comply — only those that are asked to by the government. The government won’t say who is on that list, and the firms involved are forbidden from telling their customers.

Service providers are also concerned by the law’s provision that firms can be asked to remove encryption to let spies access communications. Internet companies say that could weaken the security of online shopping, banking and a host of other activities that rely on encryption.

The new law also makes official — and legal — British spies’ ability to hack into devices and harvest vast amounts of bulk online data, much of it from outside the U.K. In doing so, it both acknowledges and sets limits on the secretive mass-snooping schemes exposed by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

The government says the law incorporates protections against intrusion, including an investigatory powers commissioner to oversee the system, and judges to scrutinize government-approved warrants to hack into electronic devices or look at the content of communications.

David Anderson, a lawyer who serves as Britain’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said the new law “creates powerful new safeguards” and “achieves world-leading standards of transparency by putting on a detailed statutory basis all the powers which police and intelligence agencies already use.”

Privacy groups battled to stop the new legislation, and now say they will challenge it in court. But public opposition has been muted, in part because the bill’s passage through Parliament has been overshadowed by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the upheaval that has followed.

Renate Samson, chief executive of the group Big Brother Watch, said it would take time for the full implications of the law to become clear to the public.

“We now live in a digital world. We are digital citizens,” Samson said. “We have no choice about whether or not we engage online.

“This bill has fundamentally changed how we are able to privately and securely communicate with one another, communicate with business, communicate with government and live an online life. And that’s a real, profound concern.”

Here’s a full list of the 48 agencies which will soon be able to access your most private information by typing your name into a database:

• Metropolitan police force
• City of London police force
• Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996
• Police Service of Scotland
• Police Service of Northern Ireland
• British Transport Police
• Ministry of Defence Police
• Royal Navy Police
• Royal Military Police
• Royal Air Force Police
• Security Service
• Secret Intelligence Service
• GCHQ
• Ministry of Defence
• Department of Health
• Home Office
• Ministry of Justice
• National Crime Agency
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Department for Transport
• Department for Work and Pensions
• NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England that provide ambulance services
• Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service
• Competition and Markets Authority
• Criminal Cases Review Commission
• Department for Communities in Northern Ireland
• Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland
• Department of Justice in Northern Ireland
• Financial Conduct Authority
• Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004
• Food Standards Agency
• Food Standards Scotland
• Gambling Commission
• Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
• Health and Safety Executive
• Independent Police Complaints Commissioner
• Information Commissioner
• NHS Business Services Authority
• Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust
• Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board
• Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation
• Office of Communications
• Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
• Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
• Scottish Ambulance Service Board
• Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
• Serious Fraud Office
• Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust

I mean, everyone knows the spies have access to this stuff. And presumably, most of them don’t even care.

But to have a situation where your cousin who works as a secretary at the gambling commission is going to be teasing you about your browsing history…

Well. I guess it’s a good reason to stop watching porno.

Brazil said Wednesday it is moving to secure its communications through its own satellite and digital networks to end its dependence on the United States, which is accused of electronically spying on the region.

“Brazil is in favor of greater decentralization: Internet governance must be multilateral and multisectoral with a broader participation,” Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo told a congressional panel.

Tuesday, Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota warned his US counterpart John Kerry that the row over Washington’s electronic snooping could sow mistrust between the two countries.

Kerry responded by conceding that Brasilia was owed answers from Washington and would get them.

He suggested that the vast US surveillance program aimed to “provide security, not just for Americans, but for Brazilians and the people of the world.”

But Bernardo Wednesday criticized the “strong concentration of (Internet) traffic” by US firms.

Revelations by US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden about the vast scope of US electronic surveillance programs have caused deep unease in Brazil and other Latin American countries that have reportedly been targeted by the spying.

Bernardo said Brasilia was finalizing the selection of companies that will be tasked with building and launching a geostationary defense and strategic communications satellite.

Tuesday, French-Italian group Thales Alenia Space (TAS) said it had won a contract worth about $400 million to build a satellite for Brazil’s developing space program.

The order, placed by Visiona — jointly owned by Brazilian aeroplane maker Embraer and telecom provider Telebras — is for a geostationary satellite for civil and military use.

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Officials demanded Monday that an advertising firm stop using a network of high-tech trash cans to track people walking through London’s financial district.

The Renew ad firm has been using technology embedded in the hulking receptacles to measure the Wi-Fi signals emitted by smartphones, and suggested that it would apply the concept of “cookies” – tracking files that follow Internet users across the Web – to the physical world.

“We will cookie the street,” Renew Chief Executive Kaveh Memari said in June.

But the City of London Corporation insisted that Renew pull the plug on the program, which captures smartphones’ serial numbers and analyzes signal strength to follow people up and down the street. Renew didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment on whether it would comply with the authorities’ demand.

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