"The intelligence services would have to ask telcos for specific data about an individual or a specific device if there is a "reasonable, articulable suspicion" of wrongdoing."
Or how about producing a court order? Just sayin...
A law bill to mildly curb the NSA's blanket surveillance of innocent Americans has taken an important step toward being passed. On Thursday, the US House of Representatives' justice committee voted 25 to two in favor of a revised version of the USA Freedom Act – the original was killed last year in the Senate. Now it's …
.....Mass surveillance of 6+ billion because we're all potential T's... Or are we Z's, because zombies better sums up how this is being packaged and sold to us.
.....Meanwhile the spying apparatus rolls on monitoring opponents of TTIP, and providing illegal tracking / interception / espionage of Euro, Brazilian and Mexican interests etc etc.
.....America Fuck Yeah!
I do feel that I need to have my data-packets on record in your online 'threat or zombie database' to state that I am not yet an opponent of TTIP and I doubt that I will be in the near future an opponent of TTIP so would the nice Intelligence community stop sending me email with a vcalendar function that automatically mails 19024 of my colleagues, thanks.
p.s. it didn't work, please try harder
Given the revelations of late, I don't think anyone's data is safe on any server, anywhere in the world as everyone is slurping like a starving man at a buffet.
Which makes me wonder... if all the "security" agencies world wide suddenly stopped slurping, would every companies' broadband bill suddenly drop? Would the 'Net be less congested?
.. on the superbly appropriate picture leading this article.
Honestly, this is the proverbial case where that one picture speaks a thousand words. Not that I didn't enjoy reading the article, mind, but my personal feelings about the impact this bill will have are pretty much summed up by that image.
Excellent choice.
... then those two gunmen in Dallas might have been stopped before they ... injured a security guard.* Oh, and because they shred a flat (so probably no mobile comms), we need to have live microphones in everyone's house, car etc. You can't be too careful, you know!
* Is it just me that finds the timing somewhat suspicious?