| ▲ | Cider9986 3 days ago | |
Thomas Massie (R-KY) has drafted a bill with the help of Naomi Brockwell (Ludlow Institute)—and introduced it co-sponsored with Lauren Boebert (R-CO)—which addresses the “third-party loophole” where the US government is able to obtain huge amounts of personal information from data brokers and other data collectors without a warrant or any oversight. The Surveillance Accountability Act would: Require a warrant for targeted investigations Require a warrant for all surveillance Prohibits warrantless use of facial recognition and license plate readers in public spaces Eliminate buying data from data brokers by agencies where a warrant would typically be needed to obtain that data directly Allow people to sue the government when their rights here have been violated More info: Full text: https://boebert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/boebert.house.g... https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/representativ... https://xcancel.com/RepThomasMassie/status/20473811214788526... | ||
| ▲ | rglover 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
Will this have any muscle in the face of a FISA warrant? Imagine not (domestic vs foreign scope), but relevant as those could be used (as they have been in the past [1]) to more or less circumvent the meat and potatoes here when expedient. [1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/fisa... | ||