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Just before leaving office, the Obama administration posts new rules
allowing many agencies to scan NSA's mass surveillance data.<br>
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Analysts "can only search the raw data for information about
Americans for foreign intelligence and counterinsurgency". That
might sound like an improvement (if you're an American, anyway),
but:
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“if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed
<b>any crime</b>, they will send it to the Justice Department."
Even if there had been no warrant, no probable cause to search for
information about you, mass surveillance data being scanned for
other people might lead to charges against you.<br>
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a petition - let the Obama
Administration know they're doing the wrong thing.<br>
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<a
href="https://act.eff.org/action/tell-obama-stop-mass-surveillance-under-executive-order-12333">https://act.eff.org/action/tell-obama-stop-mass-surveillance-under-executive-order-12333</a>
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