[HN Gopher] US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Cal...
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       US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like'
        
       Author : chadsix
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-04-16 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | phkahler wrote:
       | I'd like to at least see some positive results. Like at least
       | stats on how many and what type of people are being caught or
       | stopped using these powers.
        
         | teaearlgraycold wrote:
         | Oh but they can't do that. It'd give too much information to
         | the bad guys! (We're the bad guys)
        
       | ein0p wrote:
       | How's that "democracy" and "bill of rights" working for you my
       | fellow US citizens?
        
         | hellojesus wrote:
         | About as well as the 16th Ammendment.
        
         | JumpCrisscross wrote:
         | > _How's that "democracy" and "bill of rights" working for you
         | my fellow US citizens?_
         | 
         | In this case, pretty well. The bill was debated openly. My own
         | Congresswoman tried to push the warrant-requirement amendment
         | through. Literally nobody called into her office about it. Her
         | colleagues seem to have had similarly-empty call sheets.
         | 
         | Most Americans were, as of 2018, unconcerned about the
         | government surveilling them [1]. There is a growing share who
         | are concerned about how the government uses their personal data
         | [2]. But it's not been an issue voters get off their asses
         | about.
         | 
         | [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/06/04/how-
         | ameri...
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         | [2] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/10/18/how-
         | american...
        
       | givemeethekeys wrote:
       | When the government "compels" a company, how does that work
       | exactly? Does the company have to provide that information for
       | free? Does that mean that the company has to charge its customers
       | more in order to facilitate this? Does that prices will go up
       | across all companies in order to facilitate the information
       | gathering? Does that mean the government will need to hire more
       | people in order to process all the data?
       | 
       | It seems that the safer our society becomes, the more fearful we
       | become.
        
       | notamy wrote:
       | http://archive.today/wEHWu
        
       | 48864w6ui wrote:
       | By way of comparison, the Stasi had around 50 000 filing
       | cabinets; at 120 MB per that's 6 TB, or 3 SD cards for under a
       | thousand bucks.
        
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