Feds See the Document Leak as an Opportunity for Surveillance and Control

 

• Another day, another government blunder used as an excuse to tighten the screws on the public in hopes of reducing the fallout from official incompetence.
• That's a fair takeaway from efforts by the Biden administration and security agencies to lean on the media for reporting the contents of the recent intelligence leaks, and to plan expanded internet surveillance to catch inevitable future leakers.
• Strictly speaking, it's the job of governments to keep their own secrets.
• I can only assume the baking forums my wife frequents are havens for assassins—like John Wick, but fudgier.)
• "The administration is now looking at expanding the universe of online sites that intelligence agencies and law enforcement authorities track," NBC News added in its report about official reactions to the leak. "
• "The RESTRICT Act isn't narrowly tailored at all.

https://reason.com/2023/04/17/feds-see-the-document-leak-as-an-opportunity-for-surveillance-and-control/