If your congressperson voted for the spending bill, vote them out.

Congress is slowly legalizing illegal surveillance so they can use their ill gotten gains against US. We are the frog in the slowly warming pot.

http://theantimedia.com/us-government-privacy-cloud-act/

Written by Carey Wedler

(ANTIMEDIA) — While the nation remained fixated on gun control and Facebook’s violative practices last week, the U.S. government quietly codified the CLOUD Act, its own intrusive policies on citizens’ data.

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD) “updates the rules for criminal investigators who want to see emails, documents and other communications stored on the internet,” CNET reported. “Now law enforcement won’t be blocked from accessing someone’s Outlook account, for example, just because Microsoft happens to store the user’s email on servers in Ireland.” Read the rest of this entry »