Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraph.com,
The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
In an April 16 post to X, Snowden drew attention to a thread originally posted by Elizabeth Goitein — the co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice — that warned of a new bill that could see the U.S. government surveillance powers amplified to new levels.
Source: Edward Snowden
The bill in question reforms and extends a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) known as Section 702.
Currently, the NSA can force internet service providers such as Google and Verizon to hand over sensitive data concerning NSA targets.
However, Goitein claims that through an “innocuous change” to the definition of “electronic communications surveillance provider” in the FISA 702 bill, the U.S. government could go far beyond its current scope and force nearly every company and individual that provides any internet-related service to assist with NSA surveillance.
“That sweeps in an enormous range of U.S. businesses that provide wifi to their customers and therefore have access to equipment on which communications transit. Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist’s offices.”
Additionally, the people forced to hand over data would be unable to discuss the information provided due to hefty gag order penalties and conditions outlined in the bill, added Goitein.
Source: Elizabeth Goitein
The bill initially received heavy pushback from privacy-conscious Republicans but passed through the U.S. House of Representatives on April 13.
Part of the pushback saw the bills’ proposed spying powers time-frame cut from five years to two years, as well as some minor amendments to the service providers included under the surveillance measures.
However, according to Goitein, the amendment did very little to reduce the scope of surveillance granted to the NSA.
In her view, the amendment could even see service providers such as cleaners, plumbers and IT service providers that have access to laptops and routers inside people’s homes be forced to provide information and serve as “surrogate spies,” claimed Goitein.
The bill has seen strong pushback from both sides of the political aisle, with several government representatives claiming the bill violates citizen’s constitutional rights.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden described the bill as “terrifying” and said he would do everything in his power to prevent it from being passed through the Senate.
“This bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.”
Republican Congressperson Anna Paulina Luna, who voted against the bill in the House of Representatives, said Section 702 was an “irresponsible extension” of the NSA’s powers. Luna added that if government agencies wanted access to data, they must be forced to apply for a warrant.
The bill is slated for a vote on April 19 in the U.S. Senate.
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Based on all the current censorship and the fact every search engine displays the same results as Google, I thought they already had.
Try Yandex it doesn’t use Google. Ashamed when Russia gives more and less biased results than the US.
Many thanks Anon – I just installed it – great engine 🙂
I was reading the comments on twitter and trying to figure out how it could be worse than it already is. Don’t they already spy on everything we do?
I was talking to my wife about replacing the grate on my Weber BBQ pit and she picks up her phone and has pop-up ads for BBQ pits and accessories on it.
That’s just creepy.
What is creepy is I would swear internal thoughts turn into ads…….
Smart Dust?
They do.
I was thinking that the other day, Babb. I can’t remember now what it was I was thinking about and it showed up in an ad on my laptop. Surely, I imagined it😳
Fire back, Joe. With her phone close by, tell your wife that Sergei Brin is an asshole and that the developers at Alphabet are all flaming homos. Siri and Alexa are whores, and the pimps who designed them are Silicon Valley nimrods who couldn’t change a spare tire if their life depended on it. They suck avocados, as well.
Gargoyle personnel are cheating on their spouses with the co-op trainee fact checkers at Farcebook, and Mark Zipperhead is actually a lizard reptile for another alphabet agency of .gov. He’s ugly, too.
Older outspoken men and women who dabble on the web are just about at that point where they don’t give a shit anymore about who knows what they say and do on the interwebz.
I experienced this with my looking at table saw reviews and then I received ads for weeks on various sites and my phone for table saws.
It happens to me anytime I do a search for any specific item.
Samsung? Apple?
Nokia – 1996
Don’t use anything smart! Watch UK ‘smart’ meters: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/warmonger-britain-yemen-epstein-uk?r=hkcp6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
AND latest:
Stay off-grid – like us in SA:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/easy-living-in-south-africa-icj-ruling?sd=pf
Just making legal and official all the illegal unofficial shit they do. Officially declaring the fourth amendment (and soon the first) utterly dead as an official government stance. Daring anyone to do something about it, which of course, no one can.
I always figure every keystroke is captured somewhere.
When they take away the ability of their opposition to communicate among themselves openly it is the ultimate form of isolating or alienating, dividing and conquering them.
We will.have revert back to the old days of actual in-person meetings,
rallys, gatherings etc..MInus the electronic devices.
Lately, I was notified about hate speech twice. Just saying truthful things about the Jews committing genocide isn’t allowed. I figure everything I say is in a file somewhere.
I hope so Y – I want my scribbles to be noticed! LOL
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/vlad-the-lad-mob-rule-councils-fail?r=hhrlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
The new FISA reauthorization allowing spying on us without warrants tells you all you need to know. All of my red-state Iowa representatives voted for it, WTF!
Mike Johnson is just another fucking RINO, he might as well be Kevin McCarthey wearing a mask. We are truly fucked, and you can be sure this won’t end well.
This reads exactly like “Iran Just Seven Days Away From The Bomb”. This makes people think that they are “safe” now. False. And that their security will be threatened tomorrow. True but this is true everyday. It also makes people think a specific Actor is their “True” enemy. When in reality anyone and everyone even if they are blood is really an Agent Against Them.
Doomsday is tomorrow.
False.
Doomsday is everyday.
At some point whether natural or not…
Doomsday is today.
I’m making homemade pizza.
When doomsday strikes what will you be doing?
I believe there is a Bible verse where our Lord tells us people will be doing all their regular everyday stuff right up to the big whammy.
“Whenever it is that they are saying: ‘Peace and security!’ then sudden destruction is to be instantly upon them.” [1 Thessalonians 5:3] and many others.
Probably laundry or some sort of house chore.
There is too much truth being told on the internet today. The government is tyranny, and tyranny cannot tolerate truth. The truth must be destroyed.
When the government destroys the truth, the people must reject technology in all its forms.
Yessir
Yes, indeed which is why I am safer at 34 deg South.
Don’t kid yourself they do whatever they want regardless of fisa.
True, but after this strangling of the 4th amend requirement for warrants, minions for TPTB don’t have to hassle with getting caught faking parallel construction in a jury trial by their target.
The NSA can now be centralized, one-stop shop for extorting politicians and undermining populist opposition worse than an Epstein or FBI ever could. Unapologetic totalitarianism for the former Constitutional Republic.
Yes, it cracks me up that most people think the NSA and other intelligence agencies care what the law says. They spy on everyone, always, both foreign and domestic, regardless of whether it is legal or not. And they are never held accountable or even investigated because of ‘national security’. I’m not sure what this current brouhaha regarding FISA Section 702 is about. It could be misguided efforts by clueless politicians who don’t understand how the intelligence agencies operate, or a psyop to (continue) fooling the sheeple into thinking the intelligence agencies follow the law, or possibly they are just trying to make legal what they are already doing. But it is probably a combination of all those things, as well as some other reasons that I haven’t even thought of.
I am a Targeted Individual. I can vouch for what you are saying. In my case, they just slapped a label on me (“terrorist”) Voila! They are then allowed to do anything they want.
NSA=No Such Agency or Nefarious Satanic Agenda
I thought NSA was the motto for the US FlipFlop Police…..
No
Socks
Allowed
SKYNET = In reality is the huge NSA data center in Bluffdale Utah.
there it is again , April , 19
4/19 = A day of Luciferian false flags, fire, terror, and the cult sacrifice of children.
Waiting. Watching.
Paul Revere’s ride.
But the People’s Billionaire is defending our right to free discourse!
Jewish Holocaust revisionist banned by Musk for making ratfink Nazi cry:
If history is any indicator, slowly precedes suddenly.
Therefore, it is difficult to predict how much longer any… shall we say… non-mainstream views… will be allowed on the web / net.
Remember, webs and nets are perfect to catch anything about to be eaten.
With that in mind, if anyone wishes to save anything from my blog at TheTollOnline.com, it may be wise to do so sooner rather than later; because, in the Suddenly Phase, the site may disappear either by my own choice or at the rabid whim of an angry online A.I. DARPA dog.
TBP has protections (i.e. TMWNN, etc) that I have chosen not to invest in, so, hopefully, any posts I’ve written will remain up on this site for longer than my own? And, even when my site disappears, I may still post here. Or… I may choose to continue my stand exclusively in my locality. We will see…
In the meantime, and afterward, everything I’ve written over the past 7.5 years (in 200+ original posts), has been very consistent. So, if the readers ever see something stamped with my name (and/or moniker) that doesn’t seem like something I would write, then I didn’t.
As a business colleague told me many years ago: “Hasten Slowly” and I understand that the Queen advised Lizz Truss to do this when she became PM. That didn’t end well either.
Isn’t Snowden now openly a Russian agent?
Anony- Bloodline, bruh.
http://www.famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=20679+edward+snowden
“Snowden/Film synopsis:
Disillusioned with the intelligence community, top contractor Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) leaves his job at the National Security Agency. He now knows that a virtual mountain of data is being assembled to track all forms of digital communication — not just from foreign governments and terrorist groups, but from ordinary Americans. When Snowden decides to leak this classified information, he becomes a traitor to some, a hero to others, and a fugitive from the law.”
The rats are getting desperate. There are hundreds of millions of us. They think they are going to spy on everyone? The little minions at Ft. Meade need to ask themselves if that is what they signed up for. Many in the black building are military analysts. The civilians oversee them but most were former military themselves. I guess they can sleep at night knowing they are anti American traitors. Sad.
I’m still waiting
As if we didn’t already know – WE’RE SUNK!
Didn’t we give control of the internet to the fucking Chinese a couple of years ago?
You reckon THEY might have something to say about this bullshit?