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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 13 June 2014 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)33. On 6/5, 65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance That We Didn’t Know a Year Ago
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/65-65-things-we-know-about-nsa-surveillance-we-didnt-know-year-ago
1. We saw an example of the court orders that authorize the NSA to collect virtually every phone call record in the United Statesthats who you call, who calls you, when, for how long, and sometimes where.
2. We saw NSA Powerpoint slides documenting how the NSA conducts upstream collection, gathering intelligence information directly from the infrastructure of telecommunications providers.Prsim/Upstream slide
3. The NSA has created a content dragnet by asserting that it can intercept not only communications where a target is a party to a communication but also communications about a target, even if the target isnt a party to the communication.
4. The NSA has confirmed that it is searching data collected under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act to access Americans communications without a warrant, in what Senator Ron Wyden called the "back door search loophole."
5. Although the NSA has repeatedly stated it does not target Americans, its own documents show that searches of data collected under Section 702 are designed simply to determine with 51 percent confidence a targets foreignness.
6. If the NSA does not determine a targets foreignness, it will not stop spying on that target. Instead the NSA will presume that target to be foreign unless they can be positively identified as a United States person.
7. A leaked internal NSA audit detailed 2,776 violations of rules or court orders in just a one-year period.
8. Hackers at the NSA target sysadmins, regardless of the fact that these sysadmins themselves may be completely innocent of any wrongdoing...
MUCH, MUCH MORE
1. We saw an example of the court orders that authorize the NSA to collect virtually every phone call record in the United Statesthats who you call, who calls you, when, for how long, and sometimes where.
2. We saw NSA Powerpoint slides documenting how the NSA conducts upstream collection, gathering intelligence information directly from the infrastructure of telecommunications providers.Prsim/Upstream slide
3. The NSA has created a content dragnet by asserting that it can intercept not only communications where a target is a party to a communication but also communications about a target, even if the target isnt a party to the communication.
4. The NSA has confirmed that it is searching data collected under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act to access Americans communications without a warrant, in what Senator Ron Wyden called the "back door search loophole."
5. Although the NSA has repeatedly stated it does not target Americans, its own documents show that searches of data collected under Section 702 are designed simply to determine with 51 percent confidence a targets foreignness.
6. If the NSA does not determine a targets foreignness, it will not stop spying on that target. Instead the NSA will presume that target to be foreign unless they can be positively identified as a United States person.
7. A leaked internal NSA audit detailed 2,776 violations of rules or court orders in just a one-year period.
8. Hackers at the NSA target sysadmins, regardless of the fact that these sysadmins themselves may be completely innocent of any wrongdoing...
MUCH, MUCH MORE
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