NSA Backs Down on Major Surveillance Program That Captured Americans’ Communications Without a Warrant

NSA Backs Down on Major Surveillance Program That Captured Americans’ Communications Without a Warrant
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/nsa-backs-down-on-major-surveillance-program-that-captured-americans-c

The National Security Agency on Friday suddenly announced it is curtailing one of its major surveillance programs. Under pressure from the secret court that oversees its practices, the NSA said its “upstream” program would no longer grab communications directly from the U.S. internet backbone “about” specific foreign targets — only communication to and from those targets. This is a major change, essentially abandoning a bulk surveillance program that captured vast amounts of communications of (...)

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