1y ago

The Federal Government’s Privacy Watchdog Concedes: 702 Must Change

www.eff.org The Federal Government’s Privacy Watchdog Concedes: 702 Must Change

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has released its much-anticipated report on Section 702, a legal authority that allows the government to collect a massive amount of digital communications around the world and in the U.S. The PCLOB agreed with EFF and organizations across the....

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Anyone got a tldr for a nonAmerican?
- 702 allows the US National Security Administration (NSA) to collect information/data worldwide which has the side effect of collecting some US persons information/data. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is a government agency that's supposed to monitor other agencies for things like privacy concerns in regards to national security laws. The PCLOB has agreed with the EFF that 702 should have significant reform to improve protections for US citizens before it gets reauthorized. 702 expires at the end of this year, and the EFF believes it should expire first to remove any information that has already been collected.
  One of the biggest concerns is that US law enforcement can and has been searching this data without a warrant, thus violating US citizens right to privacy.

Which will happen anyway, with nobody inside the Beltway ever paying attention to the EFF's petition.