{"id":2222296,"date":"2024-04-16T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stalin-would-have-killed-for-the-fisa-bill-congress-just-passed\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:53:01","slug":"stalin-would-have-killed-for-the-fisa-bill-congress-just-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stalin-would-have-killed-for-the-fisa-bill-congress-just-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalin would have coveted the FISA bill recently approved by Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstalin-would-have-killed-for-the-fisa-bill-congress-just-passed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2222296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The battle \u200cover the\u200c Foreign Intelligence \u2062Surveillance Act (FISA) was lost by a \u2063narrow margin in the House\u2063 of Representatives. Liberty-minded Republicans pushed for\u2063 amendments requiring warrants and banning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-democrats-admit-they-expect-the-fbis-trump-raid-to-bait-people-into-violence\/\" title=\"Media, Democrats Admit They Expect The FBI\u2019s Trump Raid To Bait People Into Violence\">federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-johnson-impeachment-appears-to-be-distraction-from-what-democrat-leadership-knew-about-jan-6\/\" title=\"Sen. Johnson: Impeachment Appears to Be Distraction From What Democrat Leadership Knew About Jan. 6\">intelligence agencies<\/a><\/a> from surveilling Americans without them. Unfortunately, these attempts\u2063 failed, \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/winning-the-culture-war-by-shrinking-the-government\/\" title=\"Winning the Culture War by Shrinking the Government\">allowing agencies<\/a>\u2064 to continue their intrusive practices without warrants, raising concerns over privacy and constitutional rights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>We lost the battle on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">federal agencies<\/a> have used to surveil Americans without warrants, in the House of Representatives last week \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/12\/house-speaker-kills-effort-to-stop-the-feds-from-spying-on-americans-without-warrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">barely<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A group of liberty-minded Republicans were fighting to add two major things to FISA: a requirement for a warrant and a ban on federal intelligence agencies from buying American information from online data brokers. In close votes, those attempts failed, which means federal agencies can continue their (illegal) <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/12\/fisa-reform-failed-because-the-whole-point-of-section-702-is-to-spy-on-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">practice of snooping on fellow Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1924895292\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-de5f8869b918093c06f44e3b8facff13 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-de5f8869b918093c06f44e3b8facff13\"><\/div>\n<p>Obtaining a warrant is a vital part of the rule of law and a requirement by the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Stalin would have wished he had something like FISA. Not because of the lack of warrants \u2014 the KGB definitely didn\u2019t care about that \u2014 but because of something just as, if not more, sinister: the government\u2019s practice of buying American citizens\u2019 data from data brokers.<\/p>\n<p>Data brokers collect an obscene amount of data on everyone who uses the internet. The types of places we\u2019re searching on Google Maps? Collected and sold. The type of content we read the most often? Collected and sold. The ads we don\u2019t skip over? Collected and sold. Even key words we say in conversations that our phone mics pick up \u2014 collected and sold. Worse, we willingly give this information away every time we hit \u201caccept all\u201d on terms and conditions \u2014 terms and conditions we <em>must<\/em> accept to use pretty much any part of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>This data is conveniently packaged into profiles that let advertisers more accurately target us \u2014 ostensibly so we have a better advertisement experience and so advertisers can be more efficient in their use of funds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b38216947b67938c16adeeb86914200f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b38216947b67938c16adeeb86914200f\"><\/div>\n<p>But this information also gives our intelligence agencies an unprecedented glimpse into our lives, habits, likes, the people we interact with, and so much more. Worse yet, a warrant may not be needed to obtain this information since it\u2019s freely given to the data brokers and freely sold by them to our intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>This is the part of FISA Stalin wishes he had.<\/p>\n<p>We all know the KGB was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stalin-would-have-killed-for-the-fisa-reform-congress-just-passed\/\" title=\"The recent FISA reform passed by Congress would have been highly valued by Stalin\">horribly tyrannical police force<\/a> that silenced political opposition, dissent, or even just discussion. But the KGB was practically nothing without its network of informants, both paid and unpaid.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother grew up in communist Czechoslovakia. Her father was a public figure who refused to become part of the Communist Party, and so party members were always looking for dirt on him or an excuse to bring him down. Every day, my grandmother\u2019s teachers would ask her and her sister \u2014 as young as age 7 when this started \u2014 if their father had \u201csaid anything\u201d last night about the history lessons they had taught the day before.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9516a820bcf93c85d69b8ee9f6e3e319 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9516a820bcf93c85d69b8ee9f6e3e319\"><\/div>\n<p>He had, of course. He was undoing the \u201ccommunist history\u201d that my grandmother was being taught and instructing her on Czechoslovakia\u2019s actual history, but luckily for my great-grandfather, my grandmother never ratted him out.<\/p>\n<p>How easy would it have been to catch him if the Czech police could simply have purchased keyword data from his phone, his Alexa, or one of the many other devices in modern houses that have microphones?<\/p>\n<p>The Communists did eventually get my great-grandfather on trumped-up charges, so he escaped the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic with his wife and two daughters. Luckily for me, he eventually made his way to America, a land governed by the Constitution where nothing like that could happen, he thought. I\u2019m told he always said that if he couldn\u2019t live in the land of his birth, he wanted to live in America, where the Constitution limited the government and <em>understood<\/em> the corrupting power of, well, power.<\/p>\n<p>Frustratingly, we are on the path today for a similar network of surveillance. If the government can just buy our information from data brokers, what need is there for informants \u2014 whether they\u2019re the neighborhood busybody, children, or undercover policemen? For better or worse, our devices are embedded in every part of our daily life, and they collect all of that data. If our government can just buy the data on us, then they effectively have the capability to surveil us at a level equivalent to Xi Jinping and the CCP, save one difference: They\u2019re spending (likely significant) taxpayer funds to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The data is sold, not seized. Data brokers are likely making significant profits selling out their fellow Americans or, even worse, overseas data brokers are making money off of selling American data to the American government. Any way you look at it, it\u2019s a good deal for the data brokers and a bad deal for us.<\/p>\n<p>So, with FISA reauthorized, what can be done? Are we doomed to another two years, or more, of illegal surveillance, the purchase of our data by government agencies, and the flow of taxpayer dollars to the people who buy and sell our data?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Americans, there is a path forward. Later this week, a bill will be up for a vote that will prevent federal agencies from purchasing our data on the open market: the Fourth Amendment Not For Sale Act by Rep. Warren Davidson.<\/p>\n<p>While it would have been better to win the fight for our privacy directly in the FISA reauthorization, this policy, which would block agencies from buying our data and stepping around warrant requirements, is necessary for the health of our free society. Without it, the government will continue, and likely expand, its practice of buying data on us \u2014 everything from the people with whom we interact to keywords spoken in our houses to what kind of materials we buy.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t want to go down that path.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-22801b8337f37fbdc10f402df40ae80a fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-22801b8337f37fbdc10f402df40ae80a\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in the House of Representatives, the battle over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was lost by a narrow margin. 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