Our trust of the government has been renewed! Whether we like it or not.

The US PATRIOT act has been renewed with none of the reforms that had originally been pushed by the Dems. From the article over at the EFF:

Disappointingly, the government’s dangerously broad authority to conduct roving wiretaps of unspecified or “John Doe” targets, to secretly wiretap of persons without any connection to terrorists or spies under the so-called “lone wolf” provision, and to secretly access a wide range of private business records without warrants under PATRIOT Section 215 were all renewed without any new checks and balances to prevent abuse.

But of course this is only a problem if you don’t trust the government to wiretap ONLY people that deserve it, right? Fortunately our government trusts the government enough for all of us, so we needn’t worry.

(via Boing Boing)