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What are our legislative options now? Let's assume we're already exhausting all technical options.
And this, gentlemen, is why you NEVER trust a government. Any government.
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The line item veto will never be back, it should never have happened. Congress writes laws, not the executive. I'm with you on the rest of that.
>>Congress writes laws, not the executive and the executive approves them, that is the check. If they created a Single Issue rule it would not be an issue anyway, but if they are going to have the ability to pass omnibus bills then a check on that is the line item veto, no line item veto not omnibus they should go hand in hand
The single issue rule does not stop omnibus spending bills (which is exactly what normal budget bills are.)
So, here's a question. I'm a small self-hoster, US-based. If the "London police" come calling asking for my data, what repercussions do I face if I just say "No"?
The UK government can compel you to give them whatever they want by indirectly acting via the US Govt. They will pressure the US Govt the US Govt will act on you. So even though on paper they can't directly act against you, rest assured, they can. Lets pretend that the US government would not comply with requests to compel you to give them something, you can still be sued or otherwise acted upon in such a way that yo…
The most the UK government would probably do is issue a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request with the US government, who would then go get a warrant and serve that on you, which you would have to respond to.
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Yup. No secret, once recorded, stays secret forever and the surveillance state's expansion is making it worse. It'll just be a bigger pot to steal and no one bothers to pay for security because they don't have to. Equifax made money off its security breach ffs.
>Equifax made money off its security breach ffs. Source?
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Yup. No secret, once recorded, stays secret forever and the surveillance state's expansion is making it worse. It'll just be a bigger pot to steal and no one bothers to pay for security because they don't have to. Equifax made money off its security breach ffs.
>Equifax made money off its security breach ffs. Source?
+ various third parties (i.e. the one linked to) have said its likely they made money off the breach.
> This bill is the CLOUD Act. It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate. It never received a hearing. It was robbed of a stand-alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this un-vetted, unrelated data bill to the $1.3 trillion government spending bill. Congress has a professional responsibility to listen to the American people’…
Throughout history, surveillance of a population has never been in the interests of that population.