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Cnet reports the exact opposite, according to another anonymous government source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-acce
by moultano 13y ago
Cnet reports the exact opposite, according to another anonymous government source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-to-tech-companies/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of...;
The legal process, the person said, is akin to how law enforcement request information in criminal investigations: the government delivers an order to obtain account details about someone who's specifically identified as a non-U.S. individual, with a specific finding that they're involved in an activity related to international terrorism.
- einhverfr 13y agoIt sounds like they have multiple processes, which makes some sense.
- brown9-2 13y agoI don't think this is a conflict. Once the legal order is made and delivered to the company, the NSA receives a real-time feed of that user's data going forward (and all past data) and uses Prism to pull all the disparate data sources together for the analyst to analyze. Surveillance isn't just about receiving your past activity and data that already exists - they want to watch suspects use these systems to communicate in realtime to find out who else they are talking to.