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VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional (www.eff.org)
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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 5 days ago

This decision sheds light on the government’s liberal use of what is essential a “finders keepers” rule regarding your communication data. As a legal authority, FISA Section 702 allows the intelligence community to collect a massive amount of communications data from overseas in the name of “national security.” But, in cases where one side of that conversation is a person on US soil, that data is still collected and retained in large databases searchable by federal law enforcement. Because the US-side of these communications is already collected and just sitting there, the government has claimed that law enforcement agencies do not need a warrant to sift through them.

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