Senatoren bitten Tulsi Gabbard, den Amerikanern mitzuteilen, dass die VPN-Nutzung sie der häuslichen Überwachung aussetzen könnte
Senatoren bitten Tulsi Gabbard, den Amerikanern mitzuteilen, dass die VPN-Nutzung sie der häuslichen Überwachung aussetzen könnte
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From the article:
In a letter sent Thursday to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the lawmakers say that because VPNs obscure a user’s true location, and because intelligence agencies presume that communications of unknown origin are foreign, Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.
Several federal agencies, including the FBI, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Trade Commission, have recommended that consumers use VPNs to protect their privacy. But following that advice may inadvertently cost Americans the very protections they’re seeking.
The letter was signed by members of the Democratic Party’s progressive flank: Senators Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren, Edward Markey, and Alex Padilla, along with Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Sara Jacobs.
Haha ‘land of the free’
the u.s is done. it’s all downhill from here
all of em, half your comments recently over the last 3 weeks for sure have y’all on a list also. were all on a list lol
How very Chinese of them.
Big private companies mostly use VPN tech as well. So what about that?
Every wfh employee would be on a watchlist
Anyone that thinks otherwise hasn’t been paying attention. Snowden’s whistleblowing was over a decade ago and the NSA has only gotten more powerful since then.
That’s insane. “Hey citizens, we told you to use VPNs for privacy but now you’re at risk so please trust us your government to afford you privacy which you didn’t have enough of which is why we recommended VPNs in the first place.”
And if you don’t….you’re definitely subject to domestic surveillance?
Every state and municipal employee with a laptop will qualify for surveillance.
As if they already don’t have full access to get into every single person’s search history already, VPN or not.
Surely a third party having all your info and images is ok because we can trust. And also the LLMs arent creating profiles of you and your insecurities. All of this surely isn’t being connected by say…something that could organize mass amounts of data at one time (palantir).
Your online activity would never be used against you. The porn you watch, the things you Google about hemorrhoids,or the purchase you made at Bad Dragon would never be made public for sure.
All of those kiwi farms comments or 4chan posts will never link back to you…unless??
I visited Antigua and Barbuda and at the airport had my phone hacked. I spent the next several days battling a hacker trying to change my passwords. They were able to steal all my credit card points, 300K.
After that I learned about VPN and started using it regularly.
So now I’M SUSPECT?!
Fuck off Fascists!
I wonder if these senators understand anything about cyber security. Do they still believe the internet is a series of tubes I wonder?
It isn’t hard. Just email your browsing history to the government at the end of every day so they can determine if you are a real American or not.
The introduction of the Patriot Act that followed with the creation of DHS fucked up every good thing people used to have and enjoy.
A vpn hosted in the US, which all US corporations use for remote work, would not show up to the cia as unknown or foreign, it’s no different then you visiting a website hosted by the vpn, you’re still connected to a US based IP address
But I’m guessing this isn’t actually about that, it’s about raising awareness that the cia is spying on us citizens and making up fake reasons