The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws.
That is just a short excerpt of a NYT article from 1/12/17. Read the whole article. It explains all the sharing of info.
I don’t click on NYT but I do thank you for posting this link. Maybe others will read and report back. Thanks again, Abby.