John Thune
House Renews FISA Section 702, Rejects Warrant Requirement
The reforms add paperwork and prison time for misuse, but they leave the part everyone has fought about for two decades exactly where it was.
The FISA Surveillance Tool Is Up for Renewal, and the SAVE Act Is Riding Shotgun
Modest but meaningful surveillance reforms, warrant requirements, parallel construction limits, may die on the vine if they stay hitched to a bill the Senate won’t pass.
US Plan To Copy UK’s Disastrous Online Digital ID Verification Is Winning Friends in the Senate
What’s sold as a safety net for kids could become the blueprint for an ID-locked, surveillance-ready internet.
Senate Moves Forward with GENIUS Act Requiring Stablecoin Issuers to Enforce KYC, Monitor Transactions, and Report Suspicious Activity
The bill’s passage could set the stage for the US to become the global hub for digital currency, but at the cost of heightened surveillance and tighter control.
The RESTRICT Act will usher in a new era of censorship under the guise of “national security”
It gives the federal government expansive new censorship powers while exempting it from most forms of judicial, congressional, and public oversight.
Senator John Thune: YouTube and Facebook should provide a version without algorithmic recommendations
The senator thinks there should be an option to turn off the algorithmic arrangement of content and let users see what they choose.