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The reason here would be due to the implication the CIA may be involved. The CIA's charter (is supposed to) specifically prohibit domestic activity. Facebook i
by themeek 11y ago
The reason here would be due to the implication the CIA may be involved. The CIA's charter (is supposed to) specifically prohibit domestic activity.
Facebook is in PRISM and a myriad of other government programs - everything that is posted, uploaded or chatted there is tagged, filtered and alerted for activity that the US government may deem dangerous or may want to pursue for other reasons (DEA, aggregate understanding and persuasion/'engagement').
Agreed broadly that this wouldn't be completely new news (were it to be confirmed). Technical details and confirmation do help citizens to understand that surveillance/'bulk collection' is alive and well.
- ianstallings 11y agoFacebook is not restricted to the US and the CIA is allowed to spy on people inside the US in cases of counter-intel and terrorism.
- themeek 11y agoTrue. Good point. Though I think the implication here would be that the company in question is both domestic and not associated with said overseas groups. This would mean that, (without a warrant) the executive of the US government is performing searches of domestic data. Again that isn't anything new - although still profound.