Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON The Obama administration is on the verge of permitting the National Security Agency to share more of the private communications it intercepts with other American intelligence agencies without first applying any privacy protections to them, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.
The change would relax longstanding restrictions on access to the contents of the phone calls and email the security agency vacuums up around the world, including bulk collection of satellite transmissions, communications between foreigners as they cross network switches in the United States, and messages acquired overseas or provided by allies.
The idea is to let more experts across American intelligence gain direct access to unprocessed information, increasing the chances that they will recognize any possible nuggets of value. That also means more officials will be looking at private messages not only foreigners phone calls and emails that have not yet had irrelevant personal information screened out, but also communications to, from, or about Americans that the N.S.A.s foreign intelligence programs swept in incidentally.
Civil liberties advocates criticized the change, arguing that it will weaken privacy protections. They said the government should disclose how much American content the N.S.A. collects incidentally which agency officials have said is hard to measure and let the public debate what the rules should be for handling that information.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/us/politics/obama-administration-set-to-expand-sharing-of-data-that-nsa-intercepts.html?_r=0
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Otherwise stop spying us
AzDar
(14,023 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Wow, thanks Obama.
edit to add: anyone know of any pushback efforts I could lend a signature or a phone call to? I just screamed into my toaster, they're probably recording that, but I'd like to find a more effective way to push back on this.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)TPP...considers a Republican for the SCOTUS...and this...
Where ya going with this stuff, Pres?
jalan48
(13,871 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)He sure fooled a lot of people with that populist bullshit.
PSPS
(13,603 posts)noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Bassomar
(58 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)and our personal electronic communications, imagine what a Donald Trump, a Ted Cruz or a Marc Rubio would do with all the data that the NSA has collected on all of us.
Just stop and think about it.
randome
(34,845 posts)The NSA collects foreign communications. Of course that sometimes sweeps up domestic communications that occur in other countries but that's unavoidable.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
hueymahl
(2,498 posts)And I see the statists are starting to come out of the woodwork.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
If that is your attitude, you can go fuck yourself.