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With accessing further defined as an actual human looking at it, not a computer parsing it or generating statistics over the collected data of individuals in ag
by seanp2k2 10y ago
With accessing further defined as an actual human looking at it, not a computer parsing it or generating statistics over the collected data of individuals in aggregate.
- rl3 10y agoUpdated my comment to reflect that, thanks. A good example of the distinction is the raw audio of a domestic phone call in the US. First it's intercepted in bulk, then automatically sent to DSP hardware for transcription into a searchable text log. That wouldn't qualify as "collection" as the NSA defines it until a human analyst actually listened to or laid eyes upon the data. Automated analysis programs looking for keywords or specific patterns of behavior within the data probably require legal authorization as well. However, it's unclear if the legal authorizations such programs operate under are broad in nature, or issued individually in a more explicit manner.