The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
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Re: The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
#2This is pretty light on details.
Is there a TLDR of the changes around? Post-water-down version ideally.
Re: The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
#3This is pretty light on details. Is there a TLDR of the changes around? Post-water-down version ideally.
Re: The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
#4This is pretty light on details. Is there a TLDR of the changes around? Post-water-down version ideally.
https://www.leahy.senate.gov/download/usa-freedom-act-two-pa...
Wow a bill that isn't the exact opposite of what its name would imply. Admittedly I was not encouraged when I saw the phrase "USA Freedom".
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.leahy.senate.gov/download/usa-freedom-act-two-pa...
Wow a bill that isn't the exact opposite of what its name would imply. Admittedly I was not encouraged when I saw the phrase "USA Freedom".
Names of bills nowadays have little to do with their content. Maybe we should just get rid of names altogether and refer to them by SHA hashes of their content...
"Some moron amended bill f7eed03, now it's bill f5ba821. Do you know how much I had to tweak the language in order to generate a hash that looks like 'freedom'?"
Re: The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
#6Yeah, because the EFF is going to be unbiased when it comes to explaining legislation.
I'm so sick of how partisan the EFF has become.
Re: The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow a bill that isn't the exact opposite of what its name would imply. Admittedly I was not encouraged when I saw the phrase "USA Freedom".
Names of bills nowadays have little to do with their content. Maybe we should just get rid of names altogether and refer to them by SHA hashes of their content... "Some moron amended bill f7eed03, now it's bill f5ba821. Do you know how much I had to tweak the language in order to generate a hash that looks like 'freedom'?"
Why not refer to the bill as H.R.3361.
For anyone interested, here is the bill in question: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3361
Re: The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Names of bills nowadays have little to do with their content. Maybe we should just get rid of names altogether and refer to them by SHA hashes of their content... "Some moron amended bill f7eed03, now it's bill f5ba821. Do you know how much I had to tweak the language in order to generate a hash that looks like 'freedom'?"
Why not refer to the bill as H.R.3361. For anyone interested, here is the bill in question: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3361
Hashes would make it a lot easier to detect sneaky last-minute changes.
Re: The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
#9Yeah, because the EFF is going to be unbiased when it comes to explaining legislation. I'm so sick of how partisan the EFF has become.
Taking a stand on an issue is not the same thing as partisianship.
Re: The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
#10This is pretty light on details. Is there a TLDR of the changes around? Post-water-down version ideally.
https://www.leahy.senate.gov/download/usa-freedom-act-two-pa...
"Under the bill, Internet and telecommunications companies are allowed to report publicly an estimate of: (1) the number of FISA orders and NSLs received; (2) the number of such orders and NSLs complied with; and (3) the number of users or accounts on whom information was demanded under the orders and letters."
Is it just me, or the last one is a pretty big deal? Since before, "number of NSLs" could include a single letter asking for all the data on all users or really large sets of accounts. Of course, there is still always the typical loophole of "oh, it wasn't an NSL, it was data collected under a different program...", but otherwise this bill does seem to address a lot of the issues with NSA collection happening at completely secret rates, based on secret law interpreted by secret courts. Am I being too optimistic about it?