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Seems like the police casually breaking the law is the core of the issue. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

The ACLU.

edit: to be clear, I think the government itself could really do with reeling it back a bit as well - but this very news is a reminder that some people are watching out for the watched.

The ACLU was mostly mute on these issues during the prior administration, when these abuses became routine.

Just a couple of links to disprove this troll:

https://www.aclu.org/cases/florida-stingray-foia (2014)

https://www.aclu.org/cases/aclu-florida-v-city-sarasota-stin... (2014)

https://www.aclu.org/cases/foia-request-justice-department-p... (2014)

... and tons more, at https://www.aclu.org/defending-our-rights/court-battles?topi...

The first two are state cases, not federal, as are many of the others. I would have thought that "the administration" would clearly refer to Federal cases.

Providing information is fine, but please omit the name-calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Latin for "Who will guard the guards themselves?".

Alternatively also translated as “Who watches the watchmen?”

And even without knowing Latin the sentence is recognizable :) At least to me, when I looked at it, it looked very similar to that. Guards, watchmen, custodians. Guarding, watching, being in custody of. And I know from other languages like French words like "qui" (though I don't speak French either, only know a select few words).

The judiciary branch.

That very same judiciary branch has a secret court that rubber stamps almost all mass surveillance requests given to them.

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