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EFF call to action against government spying (act.eff.org)

submitted 10 months ago by ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has introduced the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023–an absolutely awful bill that ignores years of abuse and unconstitutional surveillance in order to renew a mass surveillance law with no real changes, reforms, or new oversight.

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire on December 31, 2023, and there is currently a race to see what bill will renew Big Brother’s favorite surveillance law. Any reauthorizations must come with significant reforms in order to protect the privacy of people’s communications. To that end, the choice is clear - we urge all Members to vote NO on the Intelligence Committee’s bill, H.R.6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023."

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[–] subtext@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the reminder that I need to donate to the EFF…

[–] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Same. Absolutely. Already donated this year but time for some more.

[–] wincing_nucleus073@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

should we? what do they do exactly? or what have they done?

im asking purely out of curiosity. i dont know much about them

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

EFF uses the unique expertise of leading technologists, activists, and attorneys in our efforts to defend free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, advocate for users and innovators, and support freedom-enhancing technologies.

https://www.eff.org/about

[–] LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well for one they made certbot which is a system that can get any website a free SSL certificate( which you need to have HTTPS on your site). So that's one great thing millions of people use

[–] wincing_nucleus073@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i mean actual legal or political work, not a script

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

https://www.eff.org/victories

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

They fight for our rights, develop tools like privacy badger extension, fingerprinting browser test, and probably a lot more stuff in the background that we take for granted.

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You can also check out their Wikipedia page for some writing from a more neutral point of view (of course there’s still going to be some bias).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation

[–] gnubyte@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

I mean that is what I pay EFF to lobby for; I'm sure they're working on it.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I don't think this will help much. They are doing this now because Apple went ahead and were allowed to make a statement.

I think what they should be doing is attempt towards mitigations over such classes of spying

[–] VolunTerry@monero.town 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, please politely ask those stealing you and your neighbors and countrymens currency and life's effort, without providing the "representation" they claim justifies it mind you, and then using it to spy on you illegitimately/unconstitutionally, and then using more of it to fund any legal claims made against them, all in contravention of their oaths, to pretty please stop.

I think we solved it. Pack it up and close down the privacy instance folks. Our work here is done.