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Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

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app103:
Bernie Sanders has introduced the Restore Our Privacy Act:

Read the bill here (pdf): http://www.sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Restore%20Our%20Privacy%20Act.pdf

And has a petition up on his site: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=a81ea8d9-7ee0-477d-b03e-0c790a6b9aa6

The legislation filed late yesterday would put limits on records that may be searched. Authorities would be required to establish a reasonable suspicion, based on specific information, in order to secure court approval to monitor business records related to a specific terrorism suspect.

Sanders’ bill would put an end to open-ended court orders that have resulted in wholesale data mining by the NSA and FBI. Instead, the government would be required to provide reasonable suspicion to justify searches for each record or document that it wants to examine.

The measure would eliminate a presumption in current law that anyone “known to” a suspect is relevant to the investigation. It also would increase congressional oversight by requiring the attorney general to provide reports to all members of Congress, not only members of the judiciary and intelligence committees.
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http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=82A4C254-19F7-4B40-BEB9-25BB5DC13A18

Tinman57:
  So, it looks like the British are in on it.  No big surprise here.....

British intelligence tapping fiber-optic cables for massive amounts of data
06.21.2013 3:55 PM
More secret NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables.  The operation codenamed “Tempora” by Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has been going on for at least 18 months and involves the use of “intercept probes” attached directly to transatlantic fiber-optic cables landing on British shores from telephone exchanges and Internet servers in North America.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2042720/british-intelligence-tapping-fiberoptic-cables-for-massive-amounts-of-data.html

IainB:
Interesting spinoff. As a result of the revelations about the NSA, Duck search is apparently going great guns: Search Engine Privacy - DuckDuckGo does not track its users.

Stoic Joker:
Cool, but why does the DuckDuckGo image search route through either Bing or Google?? Are they abstracting the personal info out of the query somehow...or is it/one still exposed?

IainB:
Cool, but why does the DuckDuckGo image search route through either Bing or Google?? Are they abstracting the personal info out of the query somehow...or is it/one still exposed?
-Stoic Joker (June 23, 2013, 07:38 AM)
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Hahaha. Is there no end to your skepticism?
You're probably quite right though. Enquiring minds need to know.
For this reason I wouldn't usually touch Duck with a bargepole, and I would suggest that other users operate on the same principle that I do - that there will be tracks all over the place, but if Duck is (apparently) not recording them, then that doesn't necessarily mean that everybody else isn't recording them - until proven otherwise, at least.

What I find interesting though is the operation of human assumption/belief:
(from the link)
GW: We were close to 2 million queries a day before the NSA story broke. Since then, traffic has passed 3 million. We've broken records.

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