#patriotact

We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-domestic-terrorism-bill-capitol-building

Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol attack will be used as an excuse to severely curtail our civil liberties. Nearly two decades since its initial passage in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Patriot Act has continued to linger in our collective memory. Though few (...)

#FBI #anti-terrorisme #BlackLivesMatter #PatriotAct #surveillance #ACLU

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NSA Spying
▻https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/faq#38

What is the NSA domestic spying program ? In October 2001, President Bush issued a secret presidential order authorizing the NSA to conduct a range of surveillance activities inside of the United States without statutory authorization or court approval, including electronic surveillance of Americans’ telephone and Internet communications. This program of surveillance continues through today, although the legal justifications have changed over time, and works with the major (...)

#algorithme #NSA #AT&T #anti-terrorisme #écoutes #FISA #PatriotAct #surveillance #EFF

##AT&T

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Court Approves Warrantless Surveillance Rules While Scolding F.B.I.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/court-approves-warrantless-surveillance-rules-while-scolding-fbi.html?smid=

The release of a newly declassified ruling follows a separate decision by an appeals court that a defunct National Security Agency program was illegal. WASHINGTON — The nation’s surveillance court found that the F.B.I. had committed “widespread violations” of rules intended to protect Americans’ privacy when analysts search through a repository of emails gathered without a warrant, but it nevertheless signed off on another year of the program, according to a newly declassified ruling. The (...)

#Google #NSA #FBI #AT&T #procès #législation #écoutes #FISA #PatriotAct #PRISM #surveillance

##AT&T

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Left-Right Alliance Takes Aim At Surveillance Bill
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/05/27/fisa-surveillance-trump-veto

President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a rare veto threat, promising to reject a renewal of his surveillance authorities if approved by the House of Representatives. If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor, I will quickly VETO it. Our Country has just suffered through the greatest political crime in its history. The massive abuse of FISA was a big part of it ! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020 The Senate had previously approved the renewal through (...)

#FBI #historique #législation #écoutes #FISA #PatriotAct #surveillance

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Mitch McConnell is pushing the Senate to pass a law that would let the FBI collect Americans’ web browsing history without a warrant
▻https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/mitch-mcconnell-is-pushing-the-senate-to-pass-a-law-that-would-let-the-fbi-collect-americans-web-browsing-history-without-a-warrant/articleshow/75727307.cms

The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday to renew the 2001 PATRIOT Act, and Mitch McConnell is pushing an amendment to the law that would expand the FBI’s surveillance powers.

An amendment proposed by McConnell would, for the first time ever, let the FBI collect records on Americans’ web browsing and search histories without a warrant.

Another amendment drafted by McConnell would give the attorney general more oversight of FBI investigations into political operatives, like the recent FBI (...)

#FBI #historique #législation #écoutes #PatriotAct #surveillance

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Facebook told my followers I was spreading misinformation about government surveillance. I wasn’t.
▻https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/facebook-told-my-followers-i-was-spreading-misinformation-about-government-s

Calling for more censorship — or for Big Tech companies to become the arbiters of truth — will ultimately backfire. We need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root. Okay I’ll admit it. I still use Facebook. When I logged on last night I saw something I had never seen before : a notification that read “Partly false information found in your post by independent fact checkers.” I was surprised, but figured maybe it was a glitch or related to some joke meme I had posted or (...)

#FBI #Facebook #Twitter #YouTube #bot #manipulation #censure #modération #FISA #PatriotAct #ACLU (...)

##FightfortheFuture

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The Machine Never Blinks : A Graphic History of Spying and Surveillance
https://www.fantagraphics.com/machine-blinks/?sef_rewrite=1

An eye-opening book about the myriad eyes on all of us. We used to call it the Information Age, an era of technological innovation that made our lives more convenient. But since the idealistic early days of the Internet, we’ve learned that seemingly benign technology, from debit cards to social media, is being used to spy on us — so now let’s call it what it is : the Surveillance Society. The roots of today’s high-tech monitoring stretch further back into the past than you might think. The (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #PatriotAct #surveillance

Yes, Section 215 Expired. Now What ? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expired-now-what

On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In the week before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act, without committee markup or floor amendments, which would have (...)

#EFF #surveillance #PatriotAct #FreedomofInformationAct #écoutes

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« Les mesures de surveillance high-tech contre l’épidémie de Covid-19 survivront au virus et pourront devenir permanentes », prévient Snowden à propos de méthodes comme le traçage de smartphones
▻https://www.developpez.com/actu/298241/-Les-mesures-de-surveillance-high-tech-contre-l-epidemie-de-Covid-19-sur

Nombreux sont les gouvernements du monde entier qui utilisent déjà des mesures de surveillance high-tech dans le combat contre la pandémie de Covid-19. À Singapour par exemple, les personnes susceptibles d’avoir fait l’objet d’exposition au nouveau coronavirus (en particulier celles qui revenaient de l’étranger) ont été soumises à des périodes d’isolement à domicile de 14 jours. Les patients confirmés pour leur part ont été hospitalisés. Le contrôle du respect des périodes d’isolement prescrites par les (...)

# #surveillance #santé #PatriotAct #vidéo-surveillance #reconnaissance #facial #température #géolocalisation #GPS #smartphone #anti-terrorisme (...)

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Smartphones could help us track the coronavirus – but at what cost ? | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/21/smartphones-could-help-track-coronavirus-but-at-what-cost

It’s wise to be wary of the government adopting intrusive apps that monitor the effectiveness of public health measures As we confront the pandemic, we’re flying blind, like pilots in 1930s aeroplanes flying through fog. That, at any rate, is what I take away from reading John Ioannidis, a Stanford professor who is an expert in epidemiology, population health, biomedical data science and statistics. Covid-19, he writes, in a startling article, “has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But (...)

#smartphone #anti-terrorisme #géolocalisation #BigData #PatriotAct #santé #surveillance

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N.S.A. Phone Program Cost $100 Million, but Produced Only Two Unique Leads - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/nsa-phone-program.html

A disputed program that allowed the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts yielded only one significant investigation, according to a newly declassified study. WASHINGTON — A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans’ domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigation, according to a newly declassified study. Moreover, only twice during that (...)

#NSA #FBI #smartphone #écoutes #anti-terrorisme #PatriotAct #WiretapAct

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Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies

►http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Admits-Handing-over-European-User-Data-to-US-Intelligence-Age

Google has admitted complying with requests from US intelligence agencies for data stored in its European data centers, most likely in violation of European Union data protection laws.

Gordon Frazer, Microsoft UK’s managing director, made news headlines some weeks ago when he admitted that Microsoft can be compelled to share data with the US government regardless of where it is hosted in the world.

At the center of this problem is the USA PATRIOT ACT, which states that companies incorporated in the United States must hand over data administered by their foreign subsidiaries if requested.

Not only that, but they can be forced to keep quiet about it in order to avoid exposing active investigations and alert those targeted by the probes.

This situation poses a serious problem for companies like Microsoft, Google or Amazon, which offer cloud services around the world, because their subsidiaries must also respect local laws.

#google #patriotact