Privacy advocates warn a major expansion of mass surveillance could hand “Stasi-like powers” to a Trump administration.
U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden addresses the speakers and audience via a live video link from Moscow during"The Belmarsh Tribunal," which called for the release ofNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is among the privacy advocates sounding the alarm over a major expansion of mass surveillance that the U.S.
“Did you know your FISA amendment facilitates Stasi-like powers, very plausibly for Trump? I asked your staff if you were lied to about it or if you knew. Can you confirm?” VitkaRep. Jim Himes on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Yes I know exactly what is in there,” Himes added, referring to the Turner-led amendment. “Some of it is classified. And none of it is remotely ‘Stasi-like.’ Sell your nonsense elsewhere.”“This amendment radically — and I repeat radically — expands the range of who the gov’t can force to spy on their behalf. It may be law in DAYS!” Snowden wrote on social media.
“Frankly, it’s hard to imagine any modern communication beyond the reach of this thing — which is, of course, the true reason they’re trying to sneak it into law so quietly,” he added. “It is unbelievably overbroad, and in my opinion no country that has something like this to enter into force can still be considered to be free.”“This provision allows the NSA to force a huge range of ordinary U.S. businesses to assist the NSA in Section 702 surveillance,” Goitein added.
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