Privacy

32130 readers

396 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

The Federal Government’s Privacy Watchdog Concedes: 702 Must Change (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by naut@infosec.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Use this handy tool to tell your elected officials: No reauthorization of 702 without drastic reform:

Take action

TELL congress: End 702 Absent serious reforms#

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone got a tldr for a nonAmerican?

[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

702 allows the US National Security Administration (NSA) to collect information/data worldwide which has the side effect of collecting some US persons information/data. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is a government agency that's supposed to monitor other agencies for things like privacy concerns in regards to national security laws. The PCLOB has agreed with the EFF that 702 should have significant reform to improve protections for US citizens before it gets reauthorized. 702 expires at the end of this year, and the EFF believes it should expire first to remove any information that has already been collected.

One of the biggest concerns is that US law enforcement can and has been searching this data without a warrant, thus violating US citizens right to privacy.