[HN Gopher] Tell Congress: Defeat the HPSCI Surveillance Bill
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       Tell Congress: Defeat the HPSCI Surveillance Bill
        
       Author : danboarder
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-12-11 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | marai2 wrote:
       | "You can prevent the biggest encroachment on your privacy rights
       | since the Patriot Act in two minutes max." - Edward Snowden
        
       | danboarder wrote:
       | From the article: "Section 702 allows the government to conduct
       | surveillance inside the United States by vacuuming up digital
       | communications so long as the surveillance is directed at
       | foreigners currently located outside the United States. It also
       | prohibits intentionally targeting Americans. Nevertheless, the
       | NSA routinely ("incidentally") acquires innocent Americans'
       | communications without a probable cause warrant. Once collected,
       | the FBI can search through this massive database of information
       | by "querying" the communications of specific individuals."
       | 
       | How can this law exist alongside the Bill of Rights 4th
       | Amendment?
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       | 4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their
       | persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
       | searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants
       | shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
       | affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
       | searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United...
        
         | jakebasile wrote:
         | As a gun enjoyer, I'm here to tell you that they don't care
         | about the Constitution / Bill of Rights at all. When we started
         | letting the state make little cuts to some of our rights
         | whether in the name of safety or what have you, it weakened the
         | protection for all of them.
         | 
         | If they can infringe the single most strongly worded amendment,
         | they can infringe any of them.
        
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