'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn

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'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn
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'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn::Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

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We keep going backwards in regards to digital privacy.

That's been kinda the whole theme of the US lately.

Have we ever gone forward?

It is the mission to make sure Osama bin Laden's long game was successful. He destroyed democracy and freedom exactly like he wanted. Now we have Republican Jihads. He won.

If you follow the EFF, there are occasionally small victories, but overwhelmingly no.