EFF is watchful and on YOUR side. Not on the side of the SURVEILLANCE STATE.
So, this link allows you to add the weight of your privacy wishes with regard to an encroaching Senate effort where citizen privacy is THE REAL ISSUE.
Act now or wish you had.
AGAIN - This link.
https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy
For a context, check out this websearch -
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=earn%20it%20act
A number of credible sites returned from that search, each a critique -
https://protonmail.com/blog/earn-it-anti-encryption/
https://www.wired.com/story/earn-it-act-sneak-attack-on-encryption/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-constitution
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/13/earn-it-act-threatens-end-to-end-encryption/
REMEMBER: Curbing child exploitation is something nobody will directly speak against. That means curbing child exploitation is a tailor-made excuse to curb freedoms of everyone, in the name of saving the children. (However it was Epstein died, nobody gave eulogies.) So - The game goes like this - Because nobody likes Chester Molester you make him the face of something with much larger implications for the rights and wishes of YOU and your peers. It is akin to how some can try to gin up enthusiasm for going to war by equating pacifism with a lack of patriotism.
" , , , brought to the bidding of leaders . . ." is an informative way to say things.
Whether it was Barack Obama or Donald Trump, I'd want neither to have somebody reading my email. We are surveilled enough already.
Over surveilled? Autos and cell phones that track time and location form quite a reach already. Surely such capability helping to convict a murder perp is great; but do you want a government official always capable of knowing what rallies or meetings you attend? Knowing the politicians' campaigns to which you contribute? Knowing the nonprofits you support or those you might mock or disdain?
Yes, if you publish. No if you so choose. "Freedom" was the last word uttered in the film Braveheart. That is a fact worth remembering.
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Those new computerized automobiles - of interest to readers, Ars Technica
[...] the controversy points to a bigger and woolier question about whether consumers understand just how much data is flowing from their vehicles and where it goes. There’s money to be made from a car’s GPS location, temperature data, biometric info, and data on key parts. A few years ago, Siegel and his colleagues estimated that the US connected-car data market could be worth up to $92 billion, with everyone from manufacturers and parts suppliers to dealers and insurers racing for a share. “The most important thing is to show people their own breadcrumbs,” Siegel says.