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Those goole reports are for regular law enforcement requests. They have nothing to do with spying that happens in the name of national intelligence.
by hannibal5 13y ago
Those goole reports are for regular law enforcement requests. They have nothing to do with spying that happens in the name of national intelligence.
- kllrnohj 13y agoFalse, national intelligence is still covered by Google's transparency report - see the NSL (National Security Letters) part.
- hannibal5 13y ago>The presentation claims Prism was introduced to overcome what the NSA regarded as shortcomings of Fisa warrants in tracking suspected foreign terrorists. It noted that the US has a "home-field advantage" due to housing much of the internet's architecture. But the presentation claimed "Fisa constraints restricted our home-field advantage" because Fisa required individual warrants and confirmations that both the sender and receiver of a communication were outside the US. >"Fisa was broken because it provided privacy protections to people who were not entitled to them," the presentation claimed. "It took a Fisa court order to collect on foreigners overseas who were communicating with other foreigners overseas simply because the government was collecting off a wire in the United States. There were too many email accounts to be practical to seek Fisas for all." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-n...