Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by colordrops on Sunday April 30, 2023 @05:54PM
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The USG can't put cameras in my house and promise not to look at the video unless I'm a foreigner. That's what this amounts to. Why anyone would defend this is beyond me.
Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by lern_too_spel on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:33AM
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It can't put cameras in your house if you live in the US period. If you're a foreigner living outside the US, you're fair game to the US. This is true for any country, not just the US. Why anybody doesn't understand this is beyond me.
No, phone metadata collection was ruled illegal. Ingesting court ordered FBI wiretaps on foreigners living outside the US who are of interest to national security has never been illegal in the US or in any other country.
> That doesn't mean it's ethical or should be hidden from the American public.
It isn't hidden from the American public. The documents describing the data ingested into PRISM have been declassified.