A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
  • astraeus@programming.dev
    13·
    1 year ago

    Wide-scale wiretapping in a Five Eyes country? Say it ain’t so!

    In all seriousness, how is it the federal government can sanction illegal activity for corporations such as wiretapping? This is what Richard Nixon and his administration got slammed for not even 50 years ago, now it’s par for the course.

    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Oh no, as they will clearly explain, it’s not wiretapping if it’s only metadata.

      Because the laws haven’t kept up with the times.