Liberty News – Michigan has just passed a landmark law that prohibits passing residents’ personal information over to federal authorities without a warrant. The legislation has been interpreted as a protest against the National Security Agency and has effectively tried to ban NSA privacy invasions.
The FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) system has received plenty of attention recently for the part it played in the FBI’s Trump investigation and it seems even presidential candidates aren’t safe from ever watching eyes. While the FISA program is ostensibly aimed only at foreigners, the 2013 Snowden exposé revealed large scale surveillance of American citizens, a practice which privacy advocates suspect continues and which they claim violates the constitutional right to privacy.
Michigan state representative Martin Howrylak (R) evidently thinks so, having introduced the Fourth Amendment Rights Protection Act that has just been ratified as law in the Great Lakes State. The bill received wide bipartisan approval, passing unanimously through the Senate and with a majority of 108-1 in the House. more here
Phone Scammers, Chip Cheaters, Spider Crawlers unimpeded, unperturbed or unphazed. It’s the 3rd Parties that are the real threat in a connected digital world. Rights vs Chips.
Yeah. I’m sure laws (for thee, not We) are going to be an impediment.
Done to protect muslims who want to join isis.
@Cherry Chips May 26, 2018 at 11:35 am
> It’s the 3rd Parties that are the real threat in a connected digital world.
Those Nigerian Princes’ Expeditionary Forces just keep killing people. Sad.
Who voted against it?
Watton
Musta been that Maxine Waters
Yesterday I noticed a curious thing. I’m vacationing on NC outer banks with no internet connection at the vacation house. So I’m out searching for a wifi connection when an odd one showed up on the list labeled – FBI surveillance van – now if the FBI were really running around doing some kind of survaance I wouldn’t think they would be advertising it , but it seemed an oddly named wifi hotspot to turn up on the dozen or so signals. But maybe possible as we are just south of camp Lejune.
Normally I’d be all for thus, but they should have exempted Dearborn…