▲ 156 ▼ 25 years ago today, the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush, authorizing indefinite detention without trial, warrantless surveillance and physical searches, and much more. (en.wikipedia.org) submitted 2 days ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/anniversaries@sopuli.xyz 12 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54518698 Patriot Act Titles Title I: Enhancing Domestic Security against Terrorism Title II: Enhanced Surveillance Procedures Title III: International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-terrorist Financing Act of 2001 Bank Secrecy Act Amendments and Related Improvements Title IV: Protecting the border Title V: Removing obstacles to investigating terrorism Title VI: Providing for victims of terrorism, public safety officers and their families Title VII: Increased information sharing for critical infrastructure protection Title VIII: Strengthening the criminal laws against terrorism Title IX: Improved intelligence Title X: Miscellaneous See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Patriot_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_invocations_of_the_Patriot_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism,_Crime_and_Security_Act_2001 - similar law passed in the UK the following month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act - followup passed by Obama in 2015 to make permanent some aspects of PATRIOT which were due to sunset
[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 point 1 day ago Ah dang. Tone doesn't carry too good over text, does it? permalink fedilink source parent