US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.
Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation's top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under United States surveillance law—a classification that would strip them of constitutional protections against warrantless government spying.
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.
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They’re spying on all of us either way. The question is just whether your privacy is actually improved.
I like to use an IP from UK when I post "offensive" memes 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Are you able to use an IP that will be traced to one of your many enemies?
hahaha that will be cool to try
Yes, but the VPN could be a honey pot!
normal VPN services are for normies.
Pro users rent a cheap VPS and use it with a wireguard tunnel... That VPS cannot be stopped or traced so easily.
...and it's exposed to the VPS provider. Nothing is 100% anonymous! busted! ahahaaa
yes. I said many times: consider internet as a public place.
Requesting full privacy on internet is stupid. Is like walking naked in the center of the city and you scream out loud to people to give you privacy.
I get that. I’m saying the stuff about warrants is irrelevant because they spy on everyone regardless.
I think a VPN helps at a higher layer (websites and things like that), but at a lower layer, I assume a VPN isn't a definitive solution. Will there ever be such a solution? I don't think so.