Who's looking out for you? No one.
Who's looking out for you? No one.
In order to keep the controversial legislation out of the public's eye, Congress quietly snuck it into a larger must-pass spending bill and rammed it through before any real conversations could happen.
CISA bypasses the constitutional requirement if a warrant, bypasses due process and bypasses the separation of government and private entities. Facebook, Google, AT&T - heck, any company that gathers data about you - can now turn it over to the federal government without repercussion.
Let me put it into perspective for you. Recently the NSA had to stop bulk collection of metadata. That particular data wouldn't tell the government the exact words used during a phone call, but would rather tell the government who you spoke with, how long you spoke with them, when you spoke with them and from what device and, consequently, what location.
The US government no longer has to "guess" why you were on the phone with your urologist for 20 minutes three times a week or why you keep calling a psychiatrist's office. Now the government merely has to say they want your private Facebook feed. You know, the one you were so adamant about shutting down so your ex wouldn't see your friends or your boss wouldn't see what you did last weekend? Yeah, that's gone.
Google can turn over your search history, no need for the NSA program when your phone company is forced to turn over the data the NSA was collecting anyway and, if you happen to research private browsers (such as Tor), well, you might find yourself on a no-fly list.
Might as well leave your curtains open and walk around naked for all the privacy you'll have after today.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-18/congress-just-passed-second-patriot-act-and-nobody-noticed-how-cisa-became-law
In order to keep the controversial legislation out of the public's eye, Congress quietly snuck it into a larger must-pass spending bill and rammed it through before any real conversations could happen.
CISA bypasses the constitutional requirement if a warrant, bypasses due process and bypasses the separation of government and private entities. Facebook, Google, AT&T - heck, any company that gathers data about you - can now turn it over to the federal government without repercussion.
Let me put it into perspective for you. Recently the NSA had to stop bulk collection of metadata. That particular data wouldn't tell the government the exact words used during a phone call, but would rather tell the government who you spoke with, how long you spoke with them, when you spoke with them and from what device and, consequently, what location.
The US government no longer has to "guess" why you were on the phone with your urologist for 20 minutes three times a week or why you keep calling a psychiatrist's office. Now the government merely has to say they want your private Facebook feed. You know, the one you were so adamant about shutting down so your ex wouldn't see your friends or your boss wouldn't see what you did last weekend? Yeah, that's gone.
Google can turn over your search history, no need for the NSA program when your phone company is forced to turn over the data the NSA was collecting anyway and, if you happen to research private browsers (such as Tor), well, you might find yourself on a no-fly list.
Might as well leave your curtains open and walk around naked for all the privacy you'll have after today.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-18/congress-just-passed-second-patriot-act-and-nobody-noticed-how-cisa-became-law
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