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A somewhat inaccurate headline. As Marcy Wheeler writes: "Just a tiny corner of the phone dragnet will shut down, and the government will continue to collect
by jdp23 11y ago
A somewhat inaccurate headline. As Marcy Wheeler writes:
"Just a tiny corner of the phone dragnet will shut down, and the government will continue to collect “telephony metadata records in bulk … including records of both U.S. and non-U.S. persons” under EO 12333. Hypothetically, for every single international call that had been picked up under the Section 215 dragnet and more (at a minimum, because NSA collects phone records overseas with location information), a matching record has been and will continue to be collected overseas, under EO 12333."
https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/11/27/the-government-wants-you-to-forget-it-will-still-collect-your-phone-records-in-bulk/ https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/11/27/the-government-wants-y...
- pdkl95 11y ago> international call It's important to remember that Snowden has confirmed several times that "international" is referring to the physical wire/fiber/radio they are tapping, not the people at each end of the call. In a packet switched world, any call can become "international" if the packets are sent by way of the Bahamas. ("misconfigured" BGP is a traditional method)