[HN Gopher] Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills
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       Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills
        
       Author : leotravis10
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-04-05 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | patrickmay wrote:
       | The headline leaves out the fact that law enforcement agencies
       | are gearing up to fight those bills, too. They want to be able to
       | buy information that would be unconstitutional to acquire
       | otherwise.
        
         | rt4mn wrote:
         | yeah... a lot of ink has been spilled over there should be a
         | Warrent requirement for the FBI but imo the data broker
         | loophole is the bigger issue. NSA buys netflow data in bulk for
         | petes sake.
        
       | Razengan wrote:
       | Why do we tolerate behavior from corporations that we would
       | absolutely despise if a person did it?
        
         | hammock wrote:
         | The whole point of corporations is that they are organized to
         | do things (leaving good or bad out of it) that a person cannot
         | do
        
         | JumpCrisscross wrote:
         | > _Why do we tolerate behavior from corporations that we would
         | absolutely despise if a person did it?_
         | 
         | I don't see how an individual trading these data would be more
         | or less despicable to the parties involved.
        
       | rt4mn wrote:
       | Section 702 is expiring at the end of the month but whether or
       | not it gets re-authorized by a bill called RISSA is likely going
       | to the floor of the house NEXT WEEK. IF you care about privacy
       | and surveillance, contact your house member and say you want real
       | surveillance and fisa and 702 reform, and that they should only
       | vote for RISSA if three good amendments from the judiciary
       | committee pass, and three bad ammendments from the intellegence
       | committee fail.
       | 
       | The good judiciary ammendments would: requiring fbi obtain a
       | warrant before querying 702 data, close data broker loophole,
       | prohibit restarting "abouts" collection. All good things.
       | 
       | Intel committee ammendments are really bad. expands the
       | definition of Foreign Intelligence Information to include
       | counternarcotics, Unnecessarily expands suspicionless vetting of
       | immigrants, including people allready in in the United States,
       | and Includes one of the biggest expansions of surveillance in
       | recent history, or what Rep. Lofgren calls "Patriot Act 2.0," by
       | expanding the categories of businesses that can be subject to a
       | *gagged directive* under Section 702
       | 
       | This has been an incredibly annoying issue to track and mobilize
       | around because things are moving quickly and behind the scenes
       | but just raising the issue helps. Even if you think your house
       | rep sucks on everything else, its worthwhile to reach out on this
       | issue. Its hard to know where people stand when folks from trump-
       | land and the squad are both calling for reform.
        
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