… and which decade is that going to happen 
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Some have had enough
Great. Let’s join them!
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He’s dead:
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He’s was a terrible person.
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I won’t miss him.
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From 1985…
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That was quick!
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Not quick enough!
(I know you couldn’t have been implying that I personally provided that service to humankind!)
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No, just the call for pitchforks, then he’s dead. 
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How can we get a master list of contract holders into the right hands? 
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FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year
The FBI misused controversial surveillance powers more than 278,000 times between 2020 and early 2021 to conduct warrantless searches on George Floyd protesters, January 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol, and donors to a Congressional campaign, according to a newly unclassified court opinion.
On Friday, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court made public a heavily redacted April 2022 opinion [PDF] that details hundreds of thousands of violations of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — the legislative instrument that allows warrantless snooping.
The Feds were found to have abused the spy law in a “persistent and widespread” manner, according to the court, repeatedly failing to adequately justify the need to go through US citizens’ communications using a law aimed at foreigners.
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Dangit! can’t recycle plastic but sometimes need plastic–argh!
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SF cops got warrant-free OK to watch protest via private security cameras
San Francisco cops earlier this year obtained permission to access 450 surveillance cameras belonging to private businesses to live monitor protests expected following the killing of Tyre Nichols, it emerged today.
That permission was sought under a controversial surveillance rule approved last fall in the US city. The temporary 15-month policy allows the police department to use privately owned surveillance cameras and camera networks to conduct investigations as well as to live monitor “significant events with public safety concerns” and ongoing misdemeanor and felony violations.
Police must get permission from the cameras’ owners, though crucially they don’t need to obtain a warrant. While businesses did grant officers live access to their surveillance cameras ahead of an anticipated march, the police said it didn’t use the real-time feeds in the end.
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