- cross-posted to:
- privacy@links.hackliberty.org
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@links.hackliberty.org
"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."
Thanks for the reminder that I need to donate to the EFF…
Same. Absolutely. Already donated this year but time for some more.
should we? what do they do exactly? or what have they done?
im asking purely out of curiosity. i dont know much about them
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
i mean actual legal or political work, not a script
https://www.eff.org/victories
https://www.eff.org/about
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.
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