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lelibertaire  ·  3220 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Senate votes to reform NSA 67 to 32, ends metadata collection

I think the EFF has a pretty good analysis of the Freedom Act -- its strengths and limitations.

For the most part, it's a step in the right direction.

|they can have my metadata and hang themselves on it.

Gotta say, I really don't like this attitude. It's a big pet-peeve of mine because to me it shows some negligent apathy. The whole idea of "go ahead through my info, I'm boring, I have nothing to hide" etc to me is narrow thinking.

COINTELPRO is pretty much a documented fact at this point. The government was scrutinizing protest groups raging from student organizations to MLK himself. Surely, we can agree that spying on people like MLK was not a good thing. Why be apathetic about handing the government the legal ability to act similarly toward modern activists?