The entirety of this has made me furious so I'm leaving a comment to remember to come back and soapbox in a bit.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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https://www.scribd.com/document/1017859680/Congressional-VPN-Letter-to-Dni
And the letter (because these asshats make these things difficult to find)
Doesn't CGNat obscure the user true location in the same way? And what kind of VPN are we talking about? Company with exit node in the country? Commercial ones only?
I guess I am on the "watch list" as my company uses multiple different VPN solutions so I can access work files cross offices and remotely when in the field.
Also, what about personal home VPNs where I want to route all my device traffic back to my home when I am out of the house like at a cafe/mall/airport?
Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they're entitled to under the law.
lmao
Yeah. That really jumped out at me. My very first thought was “Americans have privacy protections?” Since Roe v Wade was overturned, Americans have basically no right to privacy.
I'm curious how this works in action. If you use a VPN provider that doesn't do logging, and inherently you're traffic is encrypted via that VPN, what are they spying on? That's kind of the whole purpose of running a VPN in the first place.
If they happen to somehow see the unencrypted traffic, I hope they enjoy sifting through ass loads of torrent data. Good luck, shit bags.
It's not so much spying as moving you to the front of the line for suspicious persons.
I hope I'm there already. If I'm not then I'm not being vocal enough about how much I despise the current US government
It was the Swedes causing mass shootings in America the whole time!
- Republicans probably
Did they stop spying on americans. Im pretty sure snowden is still living in russia.
America should have took him seriously.
I really think there's no worth in the average American people anymore.
I took him seriously. I was a teenager when Snowden leaked those documents, and I took it seriously.
Why do you think I'm here today?
Yeah it was pretty big. So much of modern times it just boggles my mind for anyone who grew up in the 80's. We are literally how we portrayed russia or what we would become like if we let communism win. A whistle blower had to flee to russia. 100% bin laden won. Half my life has been in this millenium and there is a stark difference before and after (even with there being plenty which headed us in this direction).
“Mighty suspicious of you to protect yourself from our abuse. You must be up to no good.”
So in the US, locking your metaphorical doors or windows, or closing your digital curtains, means that authorities can presume you are hiding something and your 4th Amendments rights cease to be valid.
All while abusing Third Party Doctrine to buy your data from advertisers and Palantir anyway.
If a VPN routing of someone in Chicago is via Texas and California, what judge would see that as "foreign"? Oh, right, one of their idiot ones they like to give cases like this.
...Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.
We have no protections and no privacy, laws or no.
I already assume the gubmint can see everything else I do. The VPN just keeps my ISP from cancelling my service.
Old news... If you are using a VPN, it's "foreign communications" and subject to spying; and if you aren't using a VPN, they route the data through a room that's considered a foreign enclave (like an embassy), turning it into "foreign communications" and subject to spying.
Lmao, what privacy protections? This is the land of the grift, you're more protected using a VPN than without one.
I hope they have fun watching me pirate the entirety of the Pokémon anime then.
Just change your username AiLearningModule.
They already spy on everyone. They probably do worse and promote social manipulation too.
Humanity is owned. And they are trying to own it further with air and digitizing everything. And they will succeed because most people don't give a fuck and just consume all the bullshit and lifestyles marketed to them.
Thinks keep going on their current path, I'll be using i2p fairly soon.
I wonder how the goberment feels about that?
Ice cold.
Wow thanks I learned something new today.
I heard about i2p yesterday. I have no experience with it but it does sound promising.
like in the old days of illegal wiretapping when throughout the conversation one would randomly say "bomb", "arson", "nuke" etc. It's time to use more VPN to generate such a level of white noise where it becomes impractical to track VPN access...
like in the old days of illegal wiretapping when throughout the conversation one would randomly say “bomb”, “arson”, “nuke” etc.
Why do you think they're buying so much AI shit right now? To filter through the shit for whatever they want to find. People aren't the bottleneck anymore.
And it's not like they particularly care about false positives.
But, what VPNs? This is never described. All in general or specific ones?
I didn’t know this tbh so thanks (and also that’s some BS)
Not that shocked, over here.
Welp I hope they enjoy the most degen shitposts my dumb brain can come up with