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Does the US’s federal Defend IP Act bill negatively impacts privacy here?

I ask this cause I heard about the DEFEND IP Act (H.R.10575) alongside another legislation which is named the American copyright protection act bill(H.R.10364).

To which the second one does negatively impacts privacy by targeting vpns here.

While the Defend IP act bill explicitly targets foreign copyright piracy and contains an exemption for VPNs, I'm highly concerned about the underlying privacy implications.

Digital rights groups like the EFF have pointed out that forcing DNS resolvers and ISPs to implement wide-scale site-blocking forces them to act as content filters.

My main concern is infrastructure creep.

If ISPs and major public DNS providers are mandated to alter records and build out robust domain-filtering systems, doesn't this establish the exact infrastructure needed for deeper user surveillance and traffic logging down the line? How concerned should we be about the impact this could have on secure, privacy-respecting DNS resolvers?

Source: r/dataprivacy · by /u/jackyboyman13

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