{"id":1528,"date":"2015-05-31T23:39:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:16:29","slug":"snooping-section-of-us-patriot-act-has-expired-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/snooping-section-of-us-patriot-act-has-expired-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooping Section Of US PATRIOT Act Has Expired. Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the US Senate failed to renew the mass surveillance section of the US Patriot act, as of less than an hour ago, it has formally expired. This means that the US NSA, according to their own measures, are no longer authorized to do mass surveillance. What now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tonight, the infamous Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which the NSA has been using to justify its mass blanket surveillance, expired. It came with so-called \u201csunset provisions\u201d that meant it would automatically expire unless actively renewed. That happened \u2013 or rather, did not happen \u2013 last night. The law is no longer in effect.<\/p>\n

However, as pointed out earlier, the NSA has been blanket wiretapping phonecalls since at least 1976, so it\u2019s unclear how much they really depend on a law from 2001. This needs to be seen for the political victory that it is, rather than as an event causing the endgame change.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also important to remember that most of these laws only outlaw spying on a country\u2019s own citizens, while other laws encourage spying on the citizens of other<\/em> countries. Most of the Congressional hearings about the NSA have concerned whether the surveillance agency is \u201cspying on Americans\u201d. When this happens, it\u2019s vitally important to remember that Human Rights are called that for a reason. It\u2019s not Americans\u2019 Rights to the NSA, it\u2019s not British Rights to the GCHQ. Privacy is a human<\/em> right, and it applies to all humans regardless of nationality.<\/p>\n

Surveillance agencies have been trying to get political support all over the globe by saying they\u2019re not spying on the citizens of their own countries (even though they have been, and are). But it matters little in the end, for they all share data with each other: The US NSA spies on Canadian citizens, the Canadian CSEC spies on US citizens, and then they pool all their data. Add the British GCHQ, the Australian ASIO, the Swedish FRA, et cetera.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason at this point to expect surveillance agencies to stop spying on each others\u2019 countries and sharing the data with each other in order to circumvent basic human rights constitutions and provisions. Tonight\u2019s victory was more a political than a practical one. Nevertheless, it was still an important one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Getting the US Congress to do absolutely nothing about mass surveillance may not seem like much of a victory, but it\u2019s the best we\u2019ve gotten so far. And this time, that resulted in the expiration of some very nasty code of law.<\/p>\n

Surveillance hawks are mobilizing to reinstate the NSA\u2019s surveillance powers that violate human rights. Maybe they will succeed, maybe they won\u2019t. Maybe hawks in other countries will succeed, maybe they won\u2019t. But tonight marks something as unusual as a \u201ctemporary\u201d human rights violation law that turned out, in the end, to be just that: temporary. That\u2019s a rare, but very welcome, exception to the pattern.<\/p>\n

Tonight was a victory that marked where the popular support lies, ahead of the US Presidential Elections, and that was with outrage against the spying machine. When you win the popular support, you\u2019re winning the long-term game.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t over. But with tonight\u2019s victory, the outlook is getting slightly better.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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