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Thanks. This appears to be the actual bill. The names they come up with are usually a give away. Somehow the summary of this bill and the title seem at odds. The "other purposes", is of course included. Will have to read through it. Looks to be loaded.
S.1599: USA FREEDOM Act - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress
quote:
To reform the authorities of the Federal Government to require the production of certain business records, conduct electronic surveillance, use pen registers and trap and trace devices, and use other forms of information gathering for foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal purposes, and for other purposes.
"The latest disclosures from whistleblower Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency has collected millions of images for surveillance programs using facial recognition."
"One year after critics say a National Security Agency whistleblower, Edward Snowden, was unfairly targeted for his revelations about the agency's spying on U.S. citizens across the United States and the world, whistleblowers and their advocates are fighting back. The American-based ExposedFacts.org seeks to be a venue for whistleblowers to blow their whistle. It aims to shed light on concealed activities that are relevant to human rights, corporate malfeasance, the environment, civil liberties, and war and be part of the nonprofit Institute for Public Accuracy."
So, remember how we wrote about the big EFF filing in the Jewel v. NSA case,
about how the NSA and DOJ had been knowingly destroying key evidence by
pretending that they thought the preservation orders only applied to one kind of
spying, and not the kind that was approved by the FISA Court (despite at other
times admitting that the surveillance at issue in the case was approved by the
FISA Court)? Yeah, so, yesterday, the EFF realized that despite the big
kerfuffle this whole thing had caused, the NSA and DOJ were still destroying
that evidence, and sprinted over to the court to file for an emergency temporary
restraining order on the government.
"Revelations by Edward Snowden about U.S. surveillance continue to shake Germany more than one year after he came forward as an National Security Agency whistleblower. Reports based on Snowden’s leaks revealed vast NSA spying in Germany, including on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone. Last week the German government canceled its contract with the U.S. telecommunications firm Verizon. Verizon has been providing network infrastructure for the German government’s Berlin-Bonn network, used for communication between government ministries, since 2010. Meanwhile, the German Parliament is continuing to conduct an inquiry into spying by the NSA and German secret services. Some German lawmakers are calling on Merkel’s government to grant Snowden asylum."
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