Posted on 04/22/2021 2:08:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) endorsed bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Ron Wyden, Rand Paul, Patrick Leahy and Mike Lee aimed at ending the legal loopholes that allow for warrantless surveillance on Americans. The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act closes major loopholes in federal privacy law and ensures the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which regulates law enforcement access to Americans’ information, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which regulates intelligence agencies, are the exclusive means by which the government can surveil Americans.
AFP Senior Policy Analyst Jeremiah Mosteller issued the following statement:
“We can keep Americans safe while ensuring that government is accountable to its citizens. The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act accomplishes this by eliminating loopholes in federal law that have allowed federal agencies to purchase private data on millions of Americans without a court order or warrant. We deserve laws that protect our most basic privacy rights, and applaud Senators Wyden, Paul, Leahy and Lee for pushing Congress to act. We urge members to support this legislation and end the warrantless surveillance that has robbed so many Americans of their fundamental rights.”
AFP recently joined an ideologically diverse coalition of groups in a letter urging Congress to restore reasonable limits on surveillance by federal agencies and respect the Fourth Amendment rights of all Americans.
PING!
One small step.
IOW, they are using OUR money to gather OUR data. They should be lined up and shot.
The government already has all your information.
All of it.
Yes they do and major corporations have federal snoops working directly with their product development to ensure there are back doors and constant data feeds to Federal data centers.
When there are successful revolutions the data centers should have to be destroyed.
Snowden warned us years ago. This whole FISA court thing is a sham. The feds stopped using the process years ago.
Why? They can just mine everything off the internet. Whatever you signed up for, Google, Facebook, Instagram, virtually any app, etc., all required you to waive your rights in all of your data, not just what was needed for the app but everything else as well. So the federal government takes the position you have no privacy right in anything of yours that is out there on the net. They just grab it, either directly or through mining it through back doors in the tech companies.
How do you think they tracked down all the “insurrectionists”? They started with your travel records, credit card information, and then moved on from there to whatever you or anyone else might have posted on Facebook. They can pick your face out of a crowd with facial recognition technology and databases created by Facebook.
I should have added they know where you were at any time because your cellphone monitors and keeps track of all your movements.
There was time not so long ago, that the privacy of our mail and telephone calls was far more well protected. Are your business plans kept from the eyes of unethical local competition? Are your private affairs protected from criminals? When anonymous individuals have access to your private effects, all information is for potentially sale to the wrong kinds of people.
More police work should be done with traditional methods. It’s good for people to get out and develop some discipline once in a while anyway (e.g., public surveillance for making trees of association between drug dealers and addicts on paper).
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