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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, NSA, and FTC, 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.
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So in the US, locking your metaphorical doors or windows, or closing your digital curtains, means that authorities can presume you are hiding something and your 4th Amendments rights cease to be valid.
All while abusing Third Party Doctrine to buy your data from advertisers and Palantir anyway.
If a VPN routing of someone in Chicago is via Texas and California, what judge would see that as “foreign”? Oh, right, one of their idiot ones they like to give cases like this.
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Old news… If you are using a VPN, it’s “foreign communications” and subject to spying; and if you aren’t using a VPN, they route the data through a room that’s considered a foreign enclave (like an embassy), turning it into “foreign communications” and subject to spying.
I already assume the gubmint can see everything else I do. The VPN just keeps my ISP from cancelling my service.
…Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.
We have no protections and no privacy, laws or no.
Did they stop spying on americans. Im pretty sure snowden is still living in russia.
America should have took him seriously.
I really think there’s no worth in the average American people anymore.
Yeah it was pretty big. So much of modern times it just boggles my mind for anyone who grew up in the 80’s. We are literally how we portrayed russia or what we would become like if we let communism win. A whistle blower had to flee to russia. 100% bin laden won. Half my life has been in this millenium and there is a stark difference before and after (even with there being plenty which headed us in this direction).
Thinks keep going on their current path, I’ll be using i2p fairly soon.
I wonder how the goberment feels about that?
Lmao, what privacy protections? This is the land of the grift, you’re more protected using a VPN than without one.
like in the old days of illegal wiretapping when throughout the conversation one would randomly say “bomb”, “arson”, “nuke” etc. It’s time to use more VPN to generate such a level of white noise where it becomes impractical to track VPN access…
Why do you think they’re buying so much AI shit right now? To filter through the shit for whatever they want to find. People aren’t the bottleneck anymore.
And it’s not like they particularly care about false positives.
Not that shocked, over here.
They already spy on everyone. They probably do worse and promote social manipulation too.
Humanity is owned. And they are trying to own it further with air and digitizing everything. And they will succeed because most people don’t give a fuck and just consume all the bullshit and lifestyles marketed to them.
But, what VPNs? This is never described. All in general or specific ones?
Welp I hope they enjoy the most degen shitposts my dumb brain can come up with
I hope they have fun watching me pirate the entirety of the Pokémon anime then.
Just change your username AiLearningModule.
