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Re:U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors by rayiner on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:32AM (#25355933)
> In fact, “one of those 61 orders resulted in the production of information that could be characterized as information regarding browsing,” Mr. Ratcliffe wrote in the second letter. Specifically, one order had approved collection of logs revealing which computers “in a specified foreign country” had visited “a single, identified U.S. web page.”

Is this “mass surveillance?”

Re:U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors by peterkelly on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:49AM (#25356016)
It's running a query over a database that mass surveillance systems have already compiled.
Re:U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors by rayiner on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:56AM (#25356049)
No, read the actual correspondence. It’s clearly talking about FISA orders that compel ISPs to produce records: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wyden...

Even civil litigation allows you to compel ISPs to produce data based on targeted searches.