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Obama claimed he'll work with Congress to reform Section 215 of the Patriot Act. That's the portion of the Act that's supposed to restrict wholesale data collection to just those involved in serious terrorism activities, but has been interpreted by the Bush and Obama administrations to mean they can collect and store data on, well, everyone.
We will work diligently to rename it section 215 F.U. and it will clearly outline that we can do whatever we want to whomever we want so F.U. (see how it all makes sense now)
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Obama claimed he'll work with Congress to improve the oversight within the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Last week, the administration had already stated that they would be open to adding an attorney to advocate on behalf of privacy rights.
We'll create so much red tape that by the time anyone wades through it, they'll forget what they were looking for. And even if they don't, please refer to section 215FU outlined above.
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Wants to improve the transparency of government programs, including the creation of a website "hub for information on intelligence activities." So far, that website has been called The Guardian, and the government's interest in genuine transparency has been nonexistent.
We'll continue doing what we were doing, except now you know that we are doing it.
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Wants to appoint a high-level task force of outside intelligence and civil liberties specialists with the aim of advising the government on how to balance security and privacy.
I wanted to appoint a security and privacy "czar", but my advisers told me that we have 1 too many of those and the public is not responding to well to the term, so what we are going to do is create a "task force", and not just any task force a high-level task force, that is going to make government approved noise so people think something good is happening. If you are not buying into this, see section 215FU above.