Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
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Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#2I wonder how this will affect American tech companies, will they relocate their HQ out of USA? I guess every company operating in the USA will have to implement this, I’m thinking about regionally dividing my customer base just to leave Europeans higher amount of security with encryption but this is costly for me as well.
Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#3What's the end game for the current administration's corrupting of American institutions, one-by-one?
The Justice Department and the FBI were once beacons for the world to model their own justice systems after. Independent, transparent, hard-driving. Now they're politicized and demonized as some "dEeP sTatE" apparatus that's out to get Trump and his cronies.
Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#4Why stop with monitoring people’s online activities? Why not require always on microphones, cameras, and location tracking on our phones/baby monitors/alexas? Future history books won’t talk about the death of human freedom in the late 21st century because such books will be censored by future governments that have a million times more power to control their populations than was historically the case.
Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#5I thought this said "Bill Burr", and that probably wouldn't be so bad.
Edit: original title was "Congress May Hand Bill Barr the Keys to Your Online Life"
Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#6What's the end game for the current administration's corrupting of American institutions, one-by-one? The Justice Department and the FBI were once beacons for the world to model their own justice systems after. Independent, transparent, hard-driving. Now they're politicized and demonized as some "dEeP sTatE" apparatus that's out to get Trump and his cronies.
The current administration has a large share of the blame, but it's not just them. Dianne Feinstein is a cosponsor to the EARN IT act and she certainly is not part of the trump administration.
Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#7We need more decentralized software, like skype was originally, where there is no tech company with access that would have to 'earn it'. Taking away our right to privacy while telling me your are saving children makes my skin crawl - I can't think of a more anti-american act.
Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#8I wonder how this will affect American tech companies, will they relocate their HQ out of USA? I guess every company operating in the USA will have to implement this, I’m thinking about regionally dividing my customer base just to leave Europeans higher amount of security with encryption but this is costly for me as well.
i doubt it, for big tech anyway. those larger tech companies get a fair chunk of change from .gov (e.g. US DoD cloud JEDI contract as well as lord knows whatever classified/black projects); they also aren't subject to NSA offensive attack as are companies outside of the US, and may benefit from NSA/homeland security/FBI defensive information.
the only tax seems to be, according to snowden, a /intelligence-community endpoint of some sort. that doesn't seem like a huge ask as i'm sure those endpoints largely exist anyway.
Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#9What's the end game for the current administration's corrupting of American institutions, one-by-one? The Justice Department and the FBI were once beacons for the world to model their own justice systems after. Independent, transparent, hard-driving. Now they're politicized and demonized as some "dEeP sTatE" apparatus that's out to get Trump and his cronies.
Well said, comrade.
Re: Against the backdrop of the crisis, the surveillance state is set to expand
#10Ron Wyden for president 2024