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My biggest personal problem with what the NSA is doing is that they find it OK to store any data, and are only applying the laws on queries. If you look at the
by leokun 13y ago
My biggest personal problem with what the NSA is doing is that they find it OK to store any data, and are only applying the laws on queries. If you look at the violations, some are typos performed on searches. If the NSA never stored the data about Americans in the first place an overly broad typo in a search box wouldn't be an issue. I would like the law to include protection against having our information stored, not just viewed. And I also want protections for non-Americans that aren't legitimate targets. Why is nobody talking about not storing the information or the moral violations, if not legal violations, of collecting private data of innocent people who are not citizens?
- smsm42 13y agoNow add to this the fact that NSA shares information with DEA and IRS (at least, that is what is known, who knows what else exists), and both are trained to lie about where the information comes from as a matter of routine, and that information, as any other, once shared can not be unshared - and you have a nice unregulated channel here. NSA analyst makes a "typo" and finds information on John Doe that, say, IRS wants. He then "mistakenly overshares" this information. Once it is detected, NSA instructs IRS to immediately forget the information, which they happily agree to do, though miraculously it turns out they've got exactly the same information by other, confidential, channel. Thus, no abuse of NSA facility ever happened, and IRS can continue with the investigation using this information - and no warrants or probably causes ever required.