the ACLU & effective framing of privacy rights issues

to answer your more important question, I have no idea how to persuade people that civil liberties are important, and neither does the aclu

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is this Coulter or something? I really love "the most fascist organization I've seen in decades" line, it's like the author has a list he/she keeps in a notebook marked "Fascist Organizations I Have Seen In My LIfe" with fascism percentages next to the names or something.

I guess us aging lefties don't really get to complain about misuse of the word "fascist" though

Pizza girl says "eh" = IT WILL BE LIKE CANADA, get it???

The problem with that approach is that it's totally off the mark of what "privacy issues" actually constitute. Hence, I guess, that idea that it could just as easily come from the right -- all it's tapping into is the fact that people get really prickly about feeling like they're getting bossed around or monitored or supervised by anyone. Whereas yeah, the really important privacy issues lately are the ones where you don't know about them or get hassled by them at all, or at least not until you're suddenly being questioned for something.

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via Greenwald; ACLU issues a report on the erosion of civil liberties in the last decade:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/07/liberties/index.html

uh

paging, maybe Elvis Telecom here?

from Ron Wyden, one of our Oregon senators:

An obscure committee in the federal bureaucracy recently voted to allow the FBI to hack into your personal devices and access your personal data without obtaining an individual warrant to do so.

The changes approved by the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules to what is known as “Rule 41” would allow the government to get a single warrant to hack into an unlimited number of computers and digital devices owned by law-abiding Americans if their device was merely affected by criminal activity.

This dramatic and constitutionally questionable expansion of the government’s hacking and surveillance authority is poised to go into effect on December 1 – unless Congress acts. Such a change should be debated by Congress in the light of day – not handed down by unelected bureaucrats.

I’ve introduced the Stopping Mass Hacking Act to stop these changes. Congress must pass this bill to stop this dangerous change!

https://standtallforamerica.com/petition/stop-mass-hacking/a/

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/bipartisan-coalition-presses-doj-about-government-hacking

the EFF has an overview: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/rule-41-little-known-committee-proposes-grant-new-hacking-powers-government

IANAL but this appears to mostly clarify and adjust procedures for sections of Title II of the PATRIOT Act not so much add new sweeping authorities. That said I am glad smarter people than me are looking into it.

a libertarian friend's bleak take: "Basically, they want to make legal what they're doing already because they got tired of having to get warrants after-the-fact, seems to me."

that's really not how the courts work but sure