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user-inactivated  ·  4183 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I live in a Surveillance State

    I was not upset at the NSA monitoring cross-border conversations/emails. This really bothers me.

They're not supposed to "target" domestic traffic. Their means of "targeting" are very coarse, and if there's any restriction on what they can do with domestic traffic they got without "targeting" it, no one has mentioned it yet. Monitoring international traffic is part of the NSA's job, so while admittedly I don't think the NSA should exist at all, I also think that if it's going to, it should be constrained to only doing its job, and forbidden to keep or share with any other organization domestic traffic that wasn't "targeted". As it stands, there's been no mention of any rule against it collecting (but not "targeting") citizen's emails, and then passing anything interesting it finds along to the FBI.