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Re:An Apology to my European IT Team by bigiain on Monday June 24, 2013 @01:38AM (#5931222)
Aren't the NSA claiming they only need a FISA warrant if both ends of the correspondence are (reasonably believed to be) US citizens on US territory? For those of us in "the rest of the world" or any Americans corresponding with us I believe the restrictions on the NSA are "Yeah, do whatever the hell you want!"
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Re:An Apology to my European IT Team by dangrossman on Monday June 24, 2013 @01:49AM (#5931248)
FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, only creates warrants for surveilling foreign persons. It also requires that the surveillance actively minimize data collected on US persons in the process.
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Re:An Apology to my European IT Team by jviddy on Monday June 24, 2013 @07:16AM (#5932171)
It that it covers foreign persons who are believed to be outside of the US
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Re:An Apology to my European IT Team by mpyne on Monday June 24, 2013 @11:19AM (#5933463)
The NSA is claiming that FISA warrants are required if either end is a foreigner, and that if the connection is US-US that they're not allowed to examine that conversation at all.
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