US Privacy Legislation
Discussions center on US congressional bills like EARN IT Act, RESTRICT Act, USA Freedom Act, and others criticized for threatening internet privacy, enabling surveillance, and backdoors, with frequent links to congress.gov and EFF analyses.
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I believe they are talking about the EARN IT act:https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/353...
Here’s the bill, might want to read it before commenting:https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6172—— or better yet, read what the EFF wrote recently on it:https://www.eff.org/deepli
It appears that you are an American who has conveniently forgotten about FISA, EARN IT, CLOUD act, PATRIOT act, LAED, etc, etc.You realise this hasn’t passed, right? It’s a proposal.Seriously you should look to yourself and what you guys have actually passed into law before you start throwing stones at others.
The EFF summary addresses this issue pretty well:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-usa-freedom-act-st...
See the EEF's response https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/landslide-vote-house-o...
I thought HN banned blatantly editorialized headlines.EFF Deep Links is reliably extremist in its interpretation of news.Here's a more neutral report:https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/8531531/case...And a pro-CASE opinion from the President of the American Bar As
You mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_... ?
Does the EFF lobby though?
Link to the bill & the EFF’s analysis of it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173491
Perhaps GlobalProtect was referring to HR 4192?https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-statement-opposing-hr-4192-...