According to the new analysis, the NSA has clandestine means of “diverting portions of the river of internet traffic that travels on global communications cables,”
- US citizens are afforded constitutional protections against surveillance or searches of their personal data. Any time the government wants to access an American’s data, they must follow the rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court, a Washington DC-based court that authorizes the government’s surveillance programs.
- But if that same data is collected outside the US, the bulk of the NSA’s authority stems from a presidential decree dating back more than three decades.
SOURCE: ZDNET
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