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User Data Requests – Google Transparency Report
- hannibal5 13y agoWhat these documents refer to: 1. Criminal investigations within US. 2. National security investigations when they need NSL. 3. Criminal investigations outside US when foreign government officials contact Google. There is no mention of the main goal of PRISM: national security investigations when they apply to people from foreign countries. They don't need NSL, because warrantless surveillance to foreign powers is allowed by FISA. >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...