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FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/08/fbi-changes-privacy-rules-accessing-nsa-prism-dataExclusive: Classified revisions accepted by secret Fisa court affect NSA data involving Americans international emails, texts and phone calls
FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans
Spencer Ackerman in New York
Tuesday 8 March 2016 11.27 EST
The FBI has quietly revised its privacy rules for searching data involving Americans international communications that was collected by the National Security Agency, US officials have confirmed to the Guardian.
The classified revisions were accepted by the secret US court that governs surveillance, during its annual recertification of the agencies broad surveillance powers. The new rules affect a set of powers colloquially known as Section 702, the portion of the law that authorizes the NSAs sweeping Prism program to collect internet data. Section 702 falls under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), and is a provision set to expire later this year.
A government civil liberties watchdog, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Group (PCLOB), alluded to the change in its recent overview of ongoing surveillance practices.
The watchdog confirmed in a 2014 report that the FBI is allowed direct access to the NSAs massive collections of international emails, texts and phone calls which often include Americans on one end of the conversation. The activists also expressed concern that the FBIs minimization rules, for removing or limiting sensitive data that could identify Americans, did not reflect the bureaus easy access to the NSAs collected international communications.
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FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Mar 2016
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)1. In other words, that call to a client in Paris just got wiretapped by the NSA and sent to the FBI.
Your name is on there. No warrant needed. Keep that in mind.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)2. Electronic communications are not secure.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)3. Not since 2000, if not earlier. The 1997 CALEA Act made
domestic calls insecure by mandating the Telcos and ISPs install diverters that feed NSA. Trailblazer c. 2000 created the NSA infrastructure to actually retain and analyze all those calls. The means created the ends.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)4. As per Military training circa.1960.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)5. 4C dominance was the term, I believe.
There was a reference to it in Seven Days in May - ECOMCON. Some of us knew it wasn't just dramatic fiction.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)6. That is why we carried rotating authentication code.