Category: usa freedom act

NYT: $100 million US phone surveillance program produced two unique leads

Post author By Randall
Post date February 26, 2020
Categories In fbi, gear, nsa, Politics, section 215, Security, spying, surveillance, Tech, usa freedom act, william barr

[ad_1] After 2015, the USA Freedom Act replaced NSA mass surveillance of American’s call metadata that had been enacted under the Patriot Act and Section 215. While it didn’t go so far as to completely reform the system as groups like the EFF and ACLU hoped, it changed things by having phone companies collect the […]

NSA improperly collected even more call records than we thought

Post author By Randall
Post date June 26, 2019
Categories In aclu, call records, collection, data, national security agency, nsa, patriot act, phone call, Politics, Privacy, surveillance, Tech, tomorrow, usa freedom act

[ad_1] The report finds that the NSA improperly collected call record data in November 2017, February 2018 and again in October 2018. The October violation suggests the over-collection problems persisted (or new ones arose) even after the NSA admitted its error, and it might have had something to do with the NSA’s formal recommendation that […]