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Security News This Week: Roku Breach Hits 567,000 Users - wired.com - Usa

Security News This Week: Roku Breach Hits 567,000 Users

After months of delays, the US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend a controversial warrantless wiretap program for two years. Known as Section 702, the program authorizes the US government to collect the communications of foreigners overseas. But this collection also includes reams of communications from US citizens, which are stored for years and can later be warrantlessly accessed by the FBI, which has heavily abused the program. An amendment that would require investigators to obtain such a warrant failed to pass.

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Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil - wired.com - Usa - state California

Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil

A top FBI official is encouraging employees to continue to investigate Americans using a warrantless foreign surveillance program in an effort to justify the bureau’s spy powers, according to an internal email obtained by WIRED.

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Joe Biden - The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers - wired.com - Usa - county Will

The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers

The ability of the United States to intercept and store Americans’ text messages, calls, and emails in pursuit of foreign intelligence was not only extended but enhanced over the weekend in ways likely to remain enigmatic to the public for years to come.

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Joe Biden - Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers Into Informants - wired.com - Usa - Washington

Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers Into Informants

A trade organization representing some of the world’s largest information technology companies—Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft among them—say its members are voicing strong opposition to ongoing efforts by the Biden administration to dramatically expand a key US government surveillance authority.

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House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program - wired.com - Usa - county Major

House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program

A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to being reauthorized.

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Donald Trump - Trump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program - wired.com - Usa

Trump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program

For the third time since December, House Speaker Mike Johnson has failed to wrangle support for reauthorizing a critical US surveillance program, raising questions about the future of a law that compels certain businesses to wiretap foreigners on the government’s behalf.

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Donald Trump - The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency - wired.com - Usa - New York

The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency

Donald Trump appears to dream of being an American authoritarian should he return to office. The former US president, who on Tuesday secured enough delegates to win the 2024 Republican nomination, plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and house scores of them in large camps. He wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military in cities across the nation to quell civil unrest. He wants to prosecute his political opponents. There’s an organized and well-funded effort to replace career civil servants in the federal government with Trump loyalists who will do his bidding and help him consolidate power.

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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying - wired.com - Usa

US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

At a private meeting about the reauthorization of a major United States surveillance program late last year, the Republican chairman of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) presented an image of Americans protesting the war in Gaza while implying possible ties between the protesters and Hamas, an allegation that was used to illustrate why surveillance reforms may prove detrimental to national security, WIRED has learned. Sources who attended the meeting say it alarmed Republicans who are pursuing new limits on the US government's power to warrantlessly access the communications of US citizens.

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