American lawyer, editor, and politician Gideon J. Tucker is probably a name all but the most ardent history buffs don't recognize. But you do probably recognize this quote: 'No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.'
Truer words have never been spoken.
Case in point:
Real Clear Politics has the details:
It continues:
Let us unpack this: Under current law, electronic communication service providers include Internet service providers such as Google, Facebook/Meta, and Microsoft. It also includes telecom providers such as AT&T and Verizon. Under the law, these big companies are routinely compelled to hand over billions of foreign communications in addition to vast amounts of Americans’ communications that are “incidentally” caught up in this surveillance net.
But the House Intelligence bill’s expansion to include “equipment” would cover, for example, any small or medium-sized business that simply provides Wi-Fi or stores data. This means that your business landlord, Airbnb host, hotel manager, or coffee shop barista will have a legal obligation to give the government any of your emails, texts, or phone metadata that ran through their equipment. Larger entities, such as data centers, would also be enlisted in spying on Americans.
To call the expansion of government-mandated spying to baristas and landlords “reform” shows the contempt the intelligence community has for Congress and the very idea of oversight. It is nothing less than a Trojan horse buried in the House Intelligence bill.
No, it won't matter.
And yes, it is.
It's sponsored in the House by Rep. Michael Turner, an Ohio Republican, and Rep. James Himes, a Democrat from Connecticut.
Bipartisan spying.
A pox, indeed.
Look at all the places that the government can grab your data from.
Someone needs to tell Congress Orwell was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.
Pure propaganda.
We ask the good senator from Utah what he's going to do about this.
Privacy is paramount. And all but extinct in America.
Everyone should call their reps and tell them to vote against it.
Maybe they'll listen.
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