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In 2016, the National Security Agency gathered 151 million call records even though Congress made rules to reduce the federal government's sweeping surveillance of Americans' phone records. A new report shows the NSA might have collected additional call data it wasn't authorized to obtain again last year.
The American Civil Liberties Union released documents on Wednesday that it says show the NSA's "unlawful" collection of call detail records, or CDRs, of Americans in October 2018. This comes months after the NSA purged millions of call records.
"These documents further confirm that this surveillance program is beyond redemption and a privacy and civil liberties disaster," Patrick Toomey, staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project, said in a letter Wednesday. "The NSA's collection of Americans' call records is too sweeping, the compliance problems too many, and evidence of the program's value all but nonexistent. There is no justification for leaving this surveillance power in the NSA's hands."
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday June 27 2019, @04:38AM (3 children)
Who are you talking about? Yes, I know precisely the pattern you're talking about, and it happens in big organizations all the time.
Point is that THAT didn't happen in the NSA -- where basically no one was fired, no one was "disappeared," no one was forced to retire, no one was punished, which was the point of OP's ironic post (which I guess went over your head). Things have just continued the same they have been for the past few decades at least -- no reason to blame it on folks "not getting the memo" when they're the same folks not writing the memos that were never sent. They're literally THE SAME PEOPLE doing what they've always been doing.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday June 27 2019, @04:42AM (2 children)
Oh, I shouldn't have said "no one." What I meant was such a small number that it was a joke.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Thursday June 27 2019, @08:10PM (1 child)
Don't worry. We're cool here. We understand that it's rhetorical. Nobody has a problem with "no one".
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Friday June 28 2019, @01:06AM
You so missed a great opportunity:
No one has a problem with "no one".
=)
Wit is intellect, dancing.