Re:Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
by yuduhhrhr on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:19PM
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It's amazing how people still believe government laws will protect them from spy agencies.
The CIA spied on the Senate and nothing happened.
Naive in the extreme. So naive its hard to believe the opinion is genuine and not Astro turf.
And whilst what eg GCHQ actually do hasn't really changed much as far as I can tell, it's been brought onto an "open" legal footing which is progress. The next step will be for the legal safeguards which are currently rather toothless to evolve to have real teeth. I think that will happen eventually but it'll be a slow journey to get there.