Privacy @lemmy.ml Carol @lemmy.world 10mo ago

NSA Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says

www.reuters.com /technology/cybersecurity/national-security-agency-buys-web-browsing-data-without-warrant-letter-shows-2024-01-26/

NSA Director Paul Nakasone confirmed such purchases in his letter to Wyden, saying the data collected "may include information associated with electronic devices being used outside - and, in certain cases, inside - the United States."

Technology @lemmy.world glowie @h4x0r.host 10mo ago

US National Security Agency buys web browsing data without warrant, letter shows

www.reuters.com /technology/cybersecurity/national-security-agency-buys-web-browsing-data-without-warrant-letter-shows-2024-01-26/

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That might be a loophole since they aren't requesting it legally they are buying it like any other can.
- Yes. The answer to this isn't to restrict what the NSA can do, the answer is to stop people's privacy being a legally tradable commodity.
  
  Most people don’t have any concept why their privacy matters.
  
  And until something awful happens to them, they aren’t interested in learning it either.
  
  I fully agree with that.
- Fyi, this was only possible since Trump made it legal
  
  What a load of shit.
  
  Not only have they been doing this, blatantly, since the 2000’s (remember PRISM?), but even credit report agencies were originally setup in the 80’s to do exact this, and exploit this exact loophole for the government.
  
  Did big scwary orange man bad do that, too?
  
  OMG, I don't care about which boogyman you fear, it would have happened eventually regardless of color in the position. Money and power speaks much louder than political party.
I love how our tax dollars and inflated fed bucks go to this. We pay to get spied on. We've gone far beyond full circle.
Here is the letter: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/signed_wyden_letter_to_dni_re_nsa_purchase_of_domestic_metadata_and_ftc_order_on_data_brokers_with_attachments.pdf
Thanks for sharing this, it reminded me to turn my VPN back on.
- Sorry but that isn’t gonna help.
  
  How will it not help? It's an encrypted connection to a single server, and that's all the ISP sees AFAIK.
Elections have consequences. Vote in generals and vote in primaries. Tell your reps (and potential reps) that you care about privacy.
- Haha... If elections had any impact, it's long time ago we would have seen any changes... ! Every year the same parade, with the illusion of choice between a turd or a piece of shit... Either way, they both come out of the same a Hole and reeks the same...
  
  Money = power ! Vote with your wallet instead... Stop buying unecessary things, just shut down your TV, radio, mobile... and open your mind to the REAL outside world, reconnect with your intuition, stop filling your body with deadly poison and stop being a brainless sheep (not saying you're, it's a figure of speech).
  
  Than maybe we will see some real changes :)
  
  You can do both. You always get the same shitty options to vote for because most people don't vote, and even fewer of them vote in primaries or participate in the political process in other ways.
- All of these bills they pass about spying on you ("PATRIOT" act, PRISM, etc) all have pretty astounding bipartisan support. I mean they can't agree on anything except when it comes to spying on us or wiping out whole societies of people that don't look like we want them to look. They all fucking incredibly come together and agree on that. Every time.

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