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> Are you quite sure they aren't collecting content? It seems to depend entirely on the program in question, and the legal authorities for each program. For f
by mpyne 13y ago
> Are you quite sure they aren't collecting content?
It seems to depend entirely on the program in question, and the legal authorities for each program.
For foreign intelligence actually collected overseas under EO 12333 they have programs that collect content (e.g. SMS), which have existed in one form or another since the beginnings of the Cold War.
For foreign intelligence conducted on U.S. soil they have to fall within the boundaries of Fourth Amendment reasonable search (and related legal rulings like Smith v. Maryland) so they wouldn't capture content. But on the other hand they can still capture content in targeted fashion against non-U.S. persons in certain scenarios, and that content might itself involve conversations involving a U.S. person and still be a legal search.
- rhizome 13y agoIt seems to depend entirely on the program in question Accessibility does, but it has nothing to do with the agency. "Does the government store the content of US calls?" can be answered in the aggregate without reference to specific programs. If the content is there, an agency only has to acquire the authorities required to access what is already there. So, the question remains: is the content there to access, given proper authorities?