NSA Ends Part of Its Warrantless Surveillance Operation - Polidicks

[quote]WASHINGTON — 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.[/quote] [url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/us/politics/nsa-surveillance-terrorism-privacy.html[/url]

On the one hand this is a good thing. But on the other hand, part of me feels like they're just saying this, and in reality they'll just carry on in secret with less of a paper trail like they want to be Section 31.

[QUOTE=ironman17;52163075]On the one hand this is a good thing. But on the other hand, part of me feels like they're just saying this, and in reality they'll just carry on in secret with less of a paper trail like they want to be Section 31.[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm calling bullshit on this as well, especially considering the current administration.

I buy this like I buy tampons. Obvious bullshit, just trying to make people feel less spied on, in an age where your fucking [I]television[/I] can spy on you for the CIA.

Sure you do.

[QUOTE=Quark:;52164397]I buy this like I buy tampons. Obvious bullshit, just trying to make people feel less spied on, in an age where your fucking [I]television[/I] can spy on you for the CIA.[/QUOTE] TBH they've been able to do that since the 70's/80's.

It's much easier with Wi-Fi connected Smart TV's with built in microphones that are [I]always on[/I] listening for when you say "OK TV, turn on!" (which is a real thing built into some televisions) to turn the set on. Which is why I use a flat screen with no extra features :tinfoil:

[QUOTE=Quark:;52164747]It's much easier with Wi-Fi connected Smart TV's with built in microphones that are [I]always on[/I] listening for when you say "OK TV, turn on!" (which is a real thing built into some televisions) to turn the set on. Which is why I use a flat screen with no extra features :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] lets be fair though. the only way that hack is able to work is if they go to your house and plug in a usb stick into it. they need physical access. I see no problem with "target" surveillance, the issue is the blanket surveillance they were trying to pull

[QUOTE=da space core;52165541]lets be fair though. the only way that hack is able to work is if they go to your house and plug in a usb stick into it. they need physical access.[/QUOTE] i'm sorry to hear that you believe this is true. it's not a hack, it's a built in feature.