"New" S.702 Same As Old S.702

 The Feds LOVE to spy on you.

Speaker Comrade Johnson introduced the "new" S.702, claiming it had "protections" so that Feds cannot spy on you--as happened thousands of times over the last 20 years or so.

The Old 702 did not require a warrant.

The NEW 702 does not require a warrant.

See?  Speaker Comrade Johnson says they are different.  It should be obvious to you, peasant.

But just in case they are NOT different,.....

 ...Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is sold as a tool to spy on foreign terrorists. What surveillance hawks leave out is that when a foreign target — who can be virtually anyone — communicates with an American, those messages get swept into the database too. No warrant. No notice. And then the CIA, NSA, and FBI search through those private communications using Americans’ names, emails, and other identifiers — and no warrant is required for that either.

These “queries” for Americans’ information is what we call “backdoor searches,” and it is central to the raging fight over whether to reauthorize FISA. A federal court called it unconstitutional. The searches keep happening anyway.

Now add artificial intelligence to that picture. The government can now train AI on information about your constitutionally protected activity, from what you buy to what websites you visit to where you sleep at night, all based on information purchased from data brokers without any court or law authorizing agencies to do so. The Cato Institute has documented how AI tools are being used to generate the legal justifications for initiating surveillance in the first place — the government is using algorithms to write its own permission slips....

But Speaker Comrade Johnson says "No Worries!!  Be Happy!!"

We have something to say to Speaker Comrade Johnson..... 

THE NEED FOR CONTROL IS A REACTION OF FEAR.