Disillusioned
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09-02-2020 08:04:32
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Biden just revoked the following provision of a policy directive issued by Obama in 2014 imposing certain limitations on mass surveillance: “Privacy and civil liberties shall be integral considerations in the planning of US signals intelligence activities” whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Cool. So this week the Senate is voting to let the NSA take over the internet and authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans, and the House is voting to take another hundred billion dollars from you (a tenth of a trillion!) to squander on fruitless foreign wars. Very cool.
It’s over (for now). A majority of senators caved to the fearmongering and bush league tactics of the administration and surveillance hawks in Congress, and they sold out Americans’ civil liberties. Section 702 has been reauthorized, not just without any meaningful reforms… 1/10
BREAKING: The Department of Justice has charged and arrested the Samourai Wallet co-founders with "conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business."
Tornado Cash dev ruled liable for all illicit use, despite no ability to prevent it ‼️ We'll break down both the ruling itself and the craziness of the precedent set here by the case against Alex Pertsev, a developer and co-founder of the 🌪️ Tornado.cash 🌪️ project 🧵
Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out