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US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’ (www.wired.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you’re in the US, now’s a great time to contact your Senators. You can either call the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or use the Senate directory to look up your legislators’ contact info.

“Stop the FBI from expanding warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans. The House reauthorization contains the largest expansion of FISA Section 702 since it was created in 2008. Please oppose it -- and please oppose any attempt to reauthorize FISA Section 702 that doesn’t include warrant requirements, both for Section 702 data and for our sensitive, personal information sold to the government by data brokers.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Well, people in the USA probably do know one German name related to NASA :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip (Link found yesterday in a comment somewhere else on Lemmy)