All About “About” Collection
▻https://www.justsecurity.org/40384/ado-about
The National Security Agency announced Friday that it will be halting a controversial form of collection it had been conducting under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act—so called “about” collection. I had heard such an announcement was slated for next week, but appears to have been bumped up in response to a New York Times story that reported the shift in policy on Friday afternoon. So : What does this mean, and how big a deal is it ? First, what exactly is “about” collection ? (...)