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Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c... by eikenberry on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:06PM (#40107823)
You're thinking of the CIA. The NSA's job is to spy on citizens.
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Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c... by hollerith on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:15PM (#40107894)
>The NSA's job is to spy on [US] citizens

They're not supposed to (according to for example the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978).

If a US citizen needs to be spied on by the US government, the FBI is supposed to do that.

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Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c... by rokkitmensch on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:55PM (#40108209)
What the spook box says and what's inside are two completely different things, by design.
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Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c... by WarOnPrivacy on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:41PM (#40116054)
> If a US citizen needs to be spied on by the US government, the FBI is supposed to do that.

Semi-autonomous collections systems generally aren't capable of determining citizenship.

Once the data is at rest, much of it is made available to a surprisingly large number of federal and state agencies - and even local agencies via fusion centers, etc.

The system is built for dissemination. Within that, some checks on citizenship could be possible for some data. But even then, once a foreign person is part of the data/comms transaction, all the related data is available - citizenship of the other participants is no barrier.

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