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Biden signs bill criticized as “major expansion of warrantless surveillance” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma to c/technology

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[–] chiliedogg 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There's an exception to the rule that prohibits spying on religious groups.

Who wants to start an anti-surveillance religion?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think that'll save you.

https://peoplesworld.org/article/hearings-lawsuit-slam-bush-spying-defense/

NBC News obtained a secret 400-page Pentagon document that listed the Truth Project as a “credible threat” to national security. The Pentagon sent an agent to spy on the group’s first meeting at the Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth in 2004, one of almost four dozen similar meetings nationwide infiltrated on Bush-Cheney orders.

The report revealed that the Defense Department spy operation kept tabs on 1,500 “suspicious incidents” such as distribution of antiwar leaflets at high schools, peace vigils and town hall meetings.

Eight people are active in the Truth Project, Hersh said, including Quakers, a 79-year-old grandmother and Hersh himself, partially disabled by a nerve disease that often confines him to a wheelchair.

Hersh added with a chuckle, “Yes, I guess we are a ‘credible threat.’ The truth is always a threat to those who are lying. We are always a threat to illegitimate and unjust powers.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

SLAMMIN back in ‘06!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Something like the Tuareg idea of Islam, where you are obligated to kill anyone who eavesdropped on you?

Oh yeah