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But they took part in illegal surveillance programmes in the past.
by angio 4y ago
But they took part in illegal surveillance programmes in the past.
- pb7 4y ago>illegal Exactly. What's illegal here is perfectly fine in China. Let's not equate the two. US government may get data from US companies but at least it takes a warrant. Chinese government straight up owns the servers.
- MaxPock 4y ago
- pb7 4y ago8 years old, referencing the same unlawful behavior mentioned earlier.
- monocasa 4y agoDid anyone have any consequences for the illegal behavior, including perjuring themselves before Congress regarding the matter? Then why would they stop after it was declared illegal?
- ok123456 4y agoYeah the Church Committee in the 70s really reformed the "intelligence community." They learned their lesson and never violated peoples civil rights ever again. And there's so much oversight now!
- sumedh 4y ago> US government may get data from US companies but at least it takes a warrant. On December 16, 2005, The New York Times reported that the Bush administration had been conducting surveillance against U.S. citizens without specific approval from the FISA court for each case since 2002. In 2011, the Obama administration secretly won permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency's use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans' communications in its massive databases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...