Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

It's a unit system.

I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park.

It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

Since the dawn of the Patriot Act, a sweeping surveillance bill enacted shortly after 9-11,

it's been both the bane of privacy hawks and the favorite tool of the intelligence community.

Patriot, earth, I love it, I love it, I love it.

But lately, the Senate, courtesy of Mitch McConnell,

just helped the IC by giving agencies like the FBI

the power to warrantlessly search the browser history of American citizens.

And that's terrifying.

And today we've got motherboard editor and reporter Janice Rose on to break down how this happened and what's next.

Coming from my apartment in New York, I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber. Okay, so Janice, thank you so much for being on the show.

This is your first time on the show.

It is.

And I'm very happy to have you because we're going it's, it's, we're going to talk about something

that I really think is one of the most important surveillance issues of our times, the Patriot Act.

And it came back into the news recently last week and I wanted to kind of go over this with

you because it's, it's very important.

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