House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits

Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by matwood on Thursday January 11, 2018 @09:24PM (#16129934)

For better or worse, I can imagine that once you become POTUS and see all of the information it becomes very hard to stand by your privacy principles. This is by no means giving a pass to anyone, and I'd like to think I'd pick privacy every day of the week, but I'm also human. If I was POTUS I may end up doing everything in my power to avoid another attack on the US, no matter how unlikely.

Something to ponder.

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Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by stevenwoo on Thursday January 11, 2018 @09:50PM (#16130038)

I think the other part is that after lightening surveillance any terrorist attack that gets through will be used as a political cudgel no matter what to show that you were soft on terrorism. This felt kind of inevitable in the jingoistic atmosphere when the Patriot Act first passed.

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