The National Security Agency could be given expansive new surveillance powers under a proposed change to the FISA 702 bill — slated for a vote on April 19.
    • DumbAceDragonEnglish
      50•7 months ago

      The article is just really bad tabloid garbage

      1. Does not even show the section of this bill that it is talking about
      2. Source is just “Edward Snowden said a thing on twitter” (not shitting on Snowden, he’s done some great work. I’m shitting on the article)

    • @[email protected]
      6•7 months ago

      FISA authorizes a specific court to authorize warrants, the FISC, however the article looks directly at the NSAs role who is not affiliated with or charged by FISC, but through warrants and direction of the FBI. The FBI is not very scary since people normally associate them with protection of national interests, so instead the article only mentions who the tasking authority and holder of the warrant actually is. The article uses key terms specifically to get a reaction from a small subset as click bait without even providing accurate information about the topic. It’s lazy and uninformative.