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Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions
Corrupt notes an Ars analysis of the FISA bill of which the telecom immunity provision has been getting all the attention. Timothy B. Lee enumerates the ways in which the bill loosens current protections on domestic wiretapping and opens up whole new areas to government eavesdropping. "The legislation eliminates meaningful judicial oversight of eavesdropping between American citizens and foreigners located overseas, and effectively legalizes dragnet surveillance of domestic-to-foreign traffic. It stretches out the judicial review process so much that the government will in many cases be able to complete its surveillance activities before the courts finish deciding on its legality."
Does this bill loosens the rules for US-to-Canada communications? Because, oh my god, what if the NSA did know about my next vacation to Quebec City...
I like to believe that the reason we have more murders then terrorist deaths is because we want to prove that we can do it better than outsourcing can.
And nations are made up of people so pathetic, idiotic and divorced from reality that they invent these sorts of conspiracy theories. I'm assuming you're a Muslim from a Middle Eastern country or one of the US's homegrown borderline paranoid schizophrenic conspiracy theorists. If the former, remember that your governments lie every bit as much, and you don't have the benefit of a free press. If the latter, go to your doctor and seek treatment, because you're very very ill.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Your government is the one who orchestrated all those planes craches in the first place.
Governments ares run by people even more deceptive than you could ever imagine.
...are you talking about the same people that couldn't even keep a simple blow-job quiet?
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
Get some deodorant.
Yes, it would be cool to Slashdot our senators . . .
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
This is why the Matrix crashed so many times...
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