Press Release: Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Certain Companies of the People’s Republic of China. | The White House
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On November 12, 2020, by Executive Order 13959, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the threat from securities investments that finance certain companies of the People’s…

I found this wonderful post from the white house THREE DAYS AGO in my (very late) daily history post about the NSA.

“I found that the use of Chinese surveillance technology outside the PRC and the development or use of Chinese surveillance technology to facilitate repression or serious human rights abuse constituted unusual and extraordinary threats to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I expanded the national emergency to address these threats.”

  • relay@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If I were a foreign power that wanted to get as many US citizen’s data as much as possible, wouldn’t it be easier to just abuse holes in the US security apparatus that already collects data on its citizens rather than build a separate hardware and software apparatus. The US security apparatus already has done the hard part of the work of surveilling the population so intently. Interception of that data is easier than building a secret hardware surveillance network.

    • WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The whole thing is morally and intellectually bankrupt. I absolutely loathe how they frame their enemies as surveillance states while simultaneously wiretapping the world.