The Patriot Act was hastily enacted with a lot of knee-jerk stuff in it and a lot of constitution-trampling features desired by the deep-staters running the show at that time.
Some have said it's time to ditch the Patriot Act. It seems to always pop up as authority for the grievous trampling of someone's individual rights. It needs to go; because it does way more harm to innocent people than it does to the guilty, and there is no legal redress for injury. It's a bad idea whose time has passed.
After Snowden revealed the breadth and scope of surveillence, The USA Freedom Act 2015 "reformed" some of the provisions of the PATRIOT Act and restored others that had expired.
Mainly the Freedom act was supposed to limit the scope of a bulk data request.
The USA Freedom Act would put new constraints on how the government could obtain records under the PATRIOT Act and other national security laws. Instead of obtaining massive troves of data in bulk, the NSA could only ask companies for data on a specific entity like a person, account or device. And the government would have to show that the individual is associated with a foreign power or terrorist group.
We don't have all the details, but this doesn't seem to be the case with the BoA data sweep.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn of some internal DOJ memos which interpret the Patriot and Freedom Acts to allow the kind of mass surrveilence that was supposed to have been reformed.
The Patriot Act was hastily enacted with a lot of knee-jerk stuff in it and a lot of constitution-trampling features desired by the deep-staters running the show at that time.
Some have said it's time to ditch the Patriot Act. It seems to always pop up as authority for the grievous trampling of someone's individual rights. It needs to go; because it does way more harm to innocent people than it does to the guilty, and there is no legal redress for injury. It's a bad idea whose time has passed.
After Snowden revealed the breadth and scope of surveillence, The USA Freedom Act 2015 "reformed" some of the provisions of the PATRIOT Act and restored others that had expired.
Mainly the Freedom act was supposed to limit the scope of a bulk data request.
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We don't have all the details, but this doesn't seem to be the case with the BoA data sweep.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn of some internal DOJ memos which interpret the Patriot and Freedom Acts to allow the kind of mass surrveilence that was supposed to have been reformed.
Not hastily enacted. Strategically enacted out of fear. Similar to COVID. See the pattern.
Warrantless data transfer or another FISA court abuse?