If you're surprised at this story's content, you've been under a rock for far too long.
Federal agencies are creating pointless cybersecurity risks and violating the First Amendment rights of nonprofits and investors through routine yet sweeping data dragnets that also violate the latter's Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, according to lawsuits against the IRS and Securities and Exchange Commission....
... The Form 990 mandate cannot survive the "exacting scrutiny" required by the Supreme Court for "any government demand for membership or donor lists," from Alabama's demands on the NAACP in the 1950s to California's on Americans for Prosperity Foundation in the 2020s, according to the suit, filed on YAF's behalf by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation....
Now let's move on, to the Feds' intrusions into stock trades.
...The SEC is still hoovering up sensitive information on "trillions" of trades in U.S. markets in a permanent database it can search "at will," as the agency seeks a third "unprecedented" six-month delay of the New Civil Liberties Alliance lawsuit on behalf of investors against the constitutionality of the Consolidated Audit Trail, NCLA said.
The government's request "defies logic" in light of a recent SCOTUS ruling against "widespread, indiscriminate, and pervasive digital government surveillance," the public interest law firm said, describing CAT as even more intrusive than the "geofence warrant" for Google Location History data around a robbed credit union in the SCOTUS case....
So you thought that FLOCK intrusion is the only problem with Panopticon D.C.?
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