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"“The National Security Agency’s foreign intelligence operations are 1) authorized by law; 2) subject to multiple layers of stringent internal and external over
by hellbanner 11y ago
"“The National Security Agency’s foreign intelligence operations are 1) authorized by law; 2) subject to multiple layers of stringent internal and external oversight; and 3) conducted in a manner that is designed to protect privacy and civil liberties. As provided for by Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28), all persons, regardless of their nationality, have legitimate privacy interests in the handling of their personal information. NSA goes to great lengths to narrowly tailor and focus its signals intelligence operations on the collection of communications that are most likely to contain foreign intelligence or counterintelligence information.”"
- MichaelGG 11y agoEven if the oversight isn't that great (do we know how much abuse happens?), it does make sense that they would try to narrowly focus their ops. It doesn't actually benefit them to spy on random users. At the end of the day, we can only assume most of the agents do actually want to get "bad guys". (As compared to say, me, who'd love to have an XKS login for the trolling possibilities alone.)