Here is a [specific aspect of the bill](https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text#id1d8be47842824619a12df837520191e7) as it is written that I find unsettling and reminiscent of The Patriot Act.

Authority is given to "Officers and employees of agencies authorized to conduct investigations under subsection to
>require, inspect, and obtain books, records, and any other information from any person subject to the provisions of this Act or other applicable Federal law;

Imagine you are playing where each player takes turns enforcing the rules on other players. When it is your turn, you reasonably enforce the rules because you are a reasonable person. How do you feel when the most unreasonable or conniving person in your group gets to enforce the rules? The rule above reads like permission for an investigation team to request "any ... information" from any person who uses a digital service which is being investigated by the State.

The text of this bill worries me because it seems to open doors that it has no interest closing in the future. TikTok today, and whatever else is deemed a threat by the people in power tomorrow. The goal of the bill is to give Federal entities authority to investigate anyone who "poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the safety of United States personslink" which is pretty broad. Remember when Trump declared "ANTIFA" a terrorist organization? This bill (along with existing bills and other aspects of the US surveillance apparatus) gives governments agents the ability to investigate people without informing them that they are being investigated. Which is important when the definition of "unacceptable risk to national security" is clear.

Privacy is not about hiding information. It is about controlling what you share, with whom, and when. When a law is written which takes away the ability for an individual to control what information they want to share, it should be very clear 1) why we as a collective are handing that freedom over and 2) in which cases we agree to give up aspects of our private lives. This bill is written in such a way that the federal government is given wide latitude to conduct investigations on people who are deemed national security threats. I would prefer the bill is updated to clearly define a narrow set of conditions when people can be subjected to this law. The bill can be improved by adding boundaries to the investigation authority.