Re:The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to ...
by coldpie on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @07:29AM
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Rome wasn't built in a day. Legislation is a series of compromises. Think of it more as moving down the field towards your goal against the opposite team, instead of just teleporting there. Specifically, this bill makes phone spying much more onerous, and critically increases transparency which will immediately curtail abuses and fuel further debate. This isn't the last word on the topic.
Re:The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to ...
by marcosdumay on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @11:45AM
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> This isn't the last word on the topic.
Are you sure about that? Because once such law get effective, replacing it will read like an admission of failure to everybody that helped it pass.
Secret courts? Advocate. Now secret courts are more OK because apparently we reviewed them and decided they are fine with an advocate. This just cements the status quo into our system.