Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

‘Eyes Everywhere’: Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn::Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    212·
    1 year ago

    For anyone that still doesn’t know, this is already a thing for all US made (owned) hardware. Has been for 15 years+. This is expanding it to everything that would be sold on the market. You know phones are hotspots too… That’s right.

    You know why the US is so against Huawei? Because they CANT spy on every packet like they can with a Cisco, Juniper, Ruckus, etc switch. And when those start to be installed in scale, it’s a problem for the intelligence collection. This is just a small change to make what’s already there more palatable in stages. So that in another decade when things become declassified fully and more publisized, Americans don’t believe it is an issue.

      • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Indeed, it’s useful to China for blackmail, but they’d have a much harder time rolling me up in the US than the US government. And it’s likely hardly worth the effort to the extent they might try.

      • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely. I 100% prefer the Chinese to have all my data. I am a nothing person with no political power so if China wants to surveil me and train datasets with my data, cool. Because the alternative is the US and five eyes having that data and I absolutely do not want that.

        Unfortunately it makes you look like the crazy uncle in the tinfoil hat if you try to bring it up. It’s so outlandishly crazy like a Hollywood movie people don’t believe it’s real.

    • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I’m sorry, a SWITCH being backdoored when they are 95% not exposed to the internet?