[Peace-discuss] EFF petition against new mass surveillance rules
Stuart Levy
stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Sun Jan 15 17:02:04 UTC 2017
Just before leaving office, the Obama administration posts new rules
allowing many agencies to scan NSA's mass surveillance data.
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: “if analysts
stumble across evidence that an American has committed *any crime*, 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.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a petition - let the Obama
Administration know they're doing the wrong thing.
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-obama-stop-mass-surveillance-under-executive-order-12333
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