You are probably thinking of the PRISM program, which demands information from technology companies based on warrants from the secret FISA court [1], and the MU

You are probably thinking of the PRISM program, which demands information from technology companies based on warrants from the secret FISA court [1], and the MUSCULAR program which sniffs internal Google/Yahoo cloud traffic from servers based in foreign countries. MUSCULAR is completely warrantless because the information is collected outside of the United States [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program...