William Binney warned of a “turnkey totalitarian state”: the machinery of mass surveillance ready for whoever holds power next.
Section 702 is back in the spotlight after Congress kicked the fight forward with a 45 day extension. The danger is not just foreign intelligence. It is warrantless access, backdoor searches, and the normalisation of privacy as something the state can quietly take.
Surveillance powers should never be renewed without real warrants, real transparency, and real limits.
Privacy is not a loophole. It is the ground beneath free speech.
What would it take for governments to finally treat privacy as a human right?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/claw-back
#Privacy #Surveillance #Section702 #DigitalRights #CivilLiberties #FreedomOfSpeech #SelfSovereignty
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