Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance

From the article:

In a letter sent Thursday to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the lawmakers say that because VPNs obscure a user’s true location, and because intelligence agencies presume that communications of unknown origin are foreign, Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.
Several federal agencies, including the FBI, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Trade Commission, have recommended that consumers use VPNs to protect their privacy. But following that advice may inadvertently cost Americans the very protections they’re seeking.
The letter was signed by members of the Democratic Party’s progressive flank: Senators Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren, Edward Markey, and Alex Padilla, along with Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Sara Jacobs.

the u.s is done. it’s all downhill from here

Big private companies mostly use VPN tech as well. So what about that?

Anyone that thinks otherwise hasn’t been paying attention. Snowden’s whistleblowing was over a decade ago and the NSA has only gotten more powerful since then.

That’s insane. “Hey citizens, we told you to use VPNs for privacy but now you’re at risk so please trust us your government to afford you privacy which you didn’t have enough of which is why we recommended VPNs in the first place.”

As if they already don’t have full access to get into every single person’s search history already, VPN or not.

A vpn hosted in the US, which all US corporations use for remote work, would not show up to the cia as unknown or foreign, it’s no different then you visiting a website hosted by the vpn, you’re still connected to a US based IP address

But I’m guessing this isn’t actually about that, it’s about raising awareness that the cia is spying on us citizens and making up fake reasons

Let us spy on you, or we will spy on you.

This one is actually really complex.

So if we don’t use a VPN, and we’re on a US network, then the government can’t surveil us without a warrant. However, every corporation can log all out data and then sell it to the government anyways if I under right?

If you use a VPN, then you’re presumed to be foreign? Or just a VPN which places your source IP outside the US?

I can see how the DOJ/intelligence could argue for all VPN activity. After all, they don’t want a hostile government routing their traffic through surfshark and suddenly that data is untouchable to them.

What about iCloud private browsing? How does Intel classify that? Not so much a VPN but a network of proxies.

I know some/many will disagree with me but with my limited context, I’d almost rather continue using a VPN, it’s less impactful to me currently that the government logs it alone than company logging my data, sharing and selling to each other and offering for sale to the government anyways.

Everyone needs to buy a VPN subscription, stream Elmo letter of the day intro songs, ”every sperm is sacred,” the mayonnaise video from How it’s Made, pimple popping videos, bot fly removal  videos, etc 24/7 for weeks.  Like just make it dumb.  

Because this is dumb

Might as well surveil the entire population at that point because every company and state/local government in the country with remote connections is using VPNs.

We’re already under domestic surveillance, don’t kid yourself.

Happy to live in a free country that has privacy.

It’s amazing how many Americans think their country is the most free in the world when in reality they are getting exploited.

So they’re going to be watching and note 2 things:
1. I masturbate.
2. I live in texas.