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No, that's not what the NSA is saying. The regulations only apply to material inadvertently collected while targeting a specific foreign target (who, presumabl
by codex 13y ago
No, that's not what the NSA is saying. The regulations only apply to material inadvertently collected while targeting a specific foreign target (who, presumably, might be routing their traffic through the U.S. to evade surveillance). If the information is encrypted, the NSA doesn't know if it's real domestic communications, or foreign communications, until it can be decrypted, so it's kept until it can be decrypted. Otherwise, a foreign target would easily be able to evade intercept simply by making their traffic appear to be domestic.
- MereInterest 13y agoAnd all of their arguments start from the wrong side. It should not be "We stop listening as soon as we know that it is a US citizen." Instead, it should be "We only start listening once we know that it is not a US citizen." And that is ignoring the whole aspect of it that they shouldn't be doing blanket surveillance to begin with, and should only be doing targeted surveillance, whether or not it is against a US citizen.