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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 01 2017, @05:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the as-far-as-you-can-throw-them dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/us/politics/nsa-surveillance-terrorism-privacy.html

The National Security Agency said Friday that it had halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless surveillance program, ending a once-secret form of wiretapping that dates to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 expansion of national security powers.

The agency is no longer collecting Americans' emails and texts exchanged with people overseas that simply mention identifying terms — like email addresses — for foreigners whom the agency is spying on, but are neither to nor from those targets.

The decision is a major development in American surveillance policy. Privacy advocates have argued that the practice skirted or overstepped the Fourth Amendment.

The change is unrelated to the surveillance imbroglio over the investigations into Russia and the Trump campaign, according to officials familiar with the matter. Rather, it stemmed from a discovery that N.S.A. analysts had violated rules imposed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court barring any searching for Americans' information in certain messages captured through such wiretapping.

Though I'm personally wondering why now.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:40AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:40AM (#502169)

    Infomative +1, Flamebait -1, net zero.

    I appreciate you taking your time to post things supporting your point of view.

    But can we please refrain from flaming fellow Soylentils?

    If you think Frojack came across as a know-it-all, you did not come across well at all with that childish name-calling.

    I am just happy you posted AC, as I really hate to type stuff like I just did to someone by name.

    From one AC to another... please cut it out... Inciting flamewars here is not cool at all. That's why a lot of us left the other site.

    We like to think we have the professionals here... and they have the kids.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:54AM (#502170)

    We like to think we have the professionals here... and they have the kids.

    You wish. Soylentils are aging boomers going through their second childhood.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:05AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:05AM (#502174)

    From one AC to another... please cut it out... Inciting flamewars here is not cool at all. That's why a lot of us left the other site.

    Frojackoff is part of the contingent here more interested in turning this place into a pig-sty than productive discussion.

    You'll note that his post was:
    (1) Condescending
    (2) Content free - he couldn't even be bothered to write a thesis that could be debated

    The fact that I took his subtext and made it text just reveals what was there all along.
    Your complaint to me is misdirected. If you want respectful discourse, aim your criticisms at the people who open the gates of disrespect.
    And don't even try a "when they go low, we go high" rebuttal, anyone who says that without bothering to criticize the people who go low has no standing.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:38AM (#502186)

      You're not worth my time to write a thesis that could be debated. From now on I'm only coming to SoylentNews for the obituaries and I want to dance a lively jig on each and every one of your graves.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:25AM (#502690)

      I never claimed Frojack posted a useful post. Yours was a lot more informative, and it looks like his post caused you to post additional info.

      He was the trigger. You did the good thing. Frojack's post was not worth a mod one way or the other. Yours was. Informative.

      I only took issue to the name-calling.

  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Monday May 01 2017, @04:03PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Monday May 01 2017, @04:03PM (#502314) Journal

    Oh please, just please STFU.

    The response to Frojack had some numbers to refute Frojack's snarky and content-free comment.

    You (parent) might like to think that you are an adult, but by supporting posters in their trolling, you are being a child.