House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits

Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by dragonwriter on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:38PM (#16127603)

> Is the clerk.house.gov link the right one? It has "BILL TITLE: Rapid DNA Act of 2017" on its header, doesn't sound like a surveillance law?

First, it sounds like a genetic information surveillance law to me, but lots of laws have things other than their main focus (including reauths of other laws) tucked in.

Second, lots of laws have misleading titles; do “USA PATRIOT Act” and “USA FREEDOM Act” sound (other than knowing the actual content put under those titles included) like surveillance laws?

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Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by hrasyid on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:54PM (#16127743)

So, how do we know that it's the right one?

Also, it's quite conceivable that a government considers surveilance "patriotic" or necessary to defend "freedom", but I don't feel the same about "Rapid DNA".

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