Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c...
by WarOnPrivacy on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:41PM
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> 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.
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.