Last week I published a report in Wired about the government’s effort to spy on normal people organizing to block data centers in their communities. I also wrote that the federal government and a network of state fusion centers are cooking up a new dragnet to surveil vast swaths of the population that don’t like AI, under the guise of “anti-tech extremism”.
This week, congress is yet again trying to reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The act is one of many intelligence powers that allows the government to spy on Americans. Whether it helps prevent terrorism, or simply allows the government to spy on your for hating AI, nobody really gets a say in whether it is reauthorized save for a handful of senators and their briefers from the FBI, CIA, and NSA.
Instead of having a debate, out in the open, where everybody gets weigh in on whether trading our privacy for promises of security makes sense, we are subjected to an unceremonious ramrodding by 19 different intelligence agencies competing to see who can scare our politicians the most in closed door classified briefings.
As a meager correction to this policy I am conducting a public briefing on the surveillance of constitutionally protected speech and assembly. You can read the documents your government doesn’t want you to see below.
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