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kpete

(71,997 posts) Wed Jun 3, 2015, 01:02 PM Jun 2015

NSA Celebrates "Freedom Act": "A Nothing Burger For The Privacy Community"

Even people within the NSA have been candidly celebrating the Freedom Act's surveillance “reforms,” calling it “a nothingburger for the privacy community.” And they might be right — with so many overlapping and redundant surveillance authorities, it'd be foolish to think the Freedom Act has ended bulk collection in any significant capacity.

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NSA Celebrates "Freedom Act": "A Nothing Burger For The Privacy Community" (Original Post) kpete Jun 2015 OP

Pretty obvious from the get-go. Still no real restoration of 4th Amendment protections... villager Jun 2015 #1

What puzzles me is the blithe assumption it would be obeyed anyway. malthaussen Jun 2015 #2

villager

(26,001 posts)

1. Pretty obvious from the get-go. Still no real restoration of 4th Amendment protections...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 01:08 PM

Jun 2015

...under the administration of our resident Constitutional Scholar.

malthaussen

(17,204 posts)

2. What puzzles me is the blithe assumption it would be obeyed anyway.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 01:15 PM

Jun 2015

A law means nothing if it is not enforced.

-- Mal

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