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kpete

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Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:49 AM Aug 2013

So all the EU privacy laws are for nothing. Why is no one addressing this?

Prism operates under section 702 of the Fisa Amendments Act, which authorises the NSA to target without a warrant the communications of foreign nationals believed to be not on US soil.

But Snowden's revelations have shown that US emails and calls are collected in large quantities in the course of these 702 operations, either deliberately because the individual has been in contact with a foreign intelligence target or inadvertently because the NSA is unable to separate out purely domestic communications.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid
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So all the EU privacy laws are for nothing. Why is no one addressing this? (Original Post) kpete Aug 2013 OP
Because Uncle Sucker is bailing out the Eurozone Demeter Aug 2013 #1
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