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“The violations that we’ve seen have not just been epic in scale, but they’ve also been persistent, over and over again.”
US agencies are proving to be ever more intrusive in their routine surveillance of Americans’ speech and activities. https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-agencies-routinely-spy-on-phone-calls-texts-emails-of-american-citizens-experts-say_5329558.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=gab
Despite the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits warrantless government searches, U.S. agencies are proving to be ever more intrusive in their routine surveillance of Americans’ speech and activities.
Often working in collaboration with private companies and banks, agencies like the FBI have been misusing laws against foreign terrorism to vacuum up and sift through the private data of millions of Americans without a warrant or any evidence of a crime.
“The violations that we’ve seen have not just been epic in scale, but they’ve also been persistent, over and over again,” Jake Laperruque, a deputy director at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told attendees.
“To put a human scale on this, what we’re talking about is not just random typos or wrong clicks; we’re looking at things like pulling up batches of thousands of political donors in one go, without any suspicion of wrongdoing,” Laperruque said. “We’ve had reports of journalists, political commentators, a domestic political party; these compliance violations are the most worrisome type of politically focused surveillance.”
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