Pro to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 days agoSenator Reveals Which Phone Companies Protect Privacy by Telling Customers About Government Surveillance; Carriers Did Not Follow Through on Requirement to Notify Senate of Surveillance Demands.www.wyden.senate.govexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1298arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: Technology
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minus-squareunderline960@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down1·11 days agoSounds less like “protecting your privacy” and more like “letting you know when the government is violating your privacy.”
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·11 days agoWhat exactly do you expect them to do other than notify you? They can’t do anything against ESCHELON or Stellar Wind or MYSTIC or PRISM or or or or
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days agoof course but still what if we wouldn’t spread false things. if they are not allowed to protect my privacy, we shouldn’t (and neither should them) cqll it protecting our privacy, because that’s simply false and misleading
Sounds less like “protecting your privacy” and more like “letting you know when the government is violating your privacy.”
What exactly do you expect them to do other than notify you? They can’t do anything against ESCHELON or Stellar Wind or MYSTIC or PRISM or or or or
of course but still what if we wouldn’t spread false things. if they are not allowed to protect my privacy, we shouldn’t (and neither should them) cqll it protecting our privacy, because that’s simply false and misleading
OK, fair enough.
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