Posted on 11/28/2015 12:32:53 AM PST by dennisw
The move, mandated by a law passed six months ago, represents the greatest reduction of U.S. spying capabilities since they expanded dramatically after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Under the Freedom Act, the NSA and law enforcement agencies can no longer collect telephone-calling records in bulk in an effort to sniff out suspicious activity.
Such records, known as 'metadata,' reveal which numbers Americans are calling and what time they place those calls, but not the content of the conversations.
Instead analysts must now get a court order to ask telecommunications companies like Verizon Communications to enable monitoring of call records of specific people or groups for up to six months.
The U.S. National Security Agency will end its broad surveillance of Americans' phone records The NSA will replace the program with more tightly targeted methods The move comes two-and-a-half years after the program was exposed by Edward Snowden The program revealed who Americans were calling and when - but not the content of the calls
The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans' phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama administration said on Friday.
As required by law, the NSA will end its wide-ranging surveillance program by 11:59pm. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday) and expects to have the new, scaled-back system in place by then, the White House said.
The transition is a long-awaited victory for privacy advocates and tech companies wary of broad government surveillance at a time when national security concerns are heightened in the wake of the Paris attacks earlier this month.
It comes two and a half years after the controversial program was exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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All the data already collected will go down the (Orin) Hatch?
Madame Defarge, knitting.....knitting....always knitting.
And our healthcare will be $2500 less per year.
I have nothing to hide and the 4th amendment was violated routinely long before this and with legal precedence. One more brick in the wall.
//If the government wants you out of the way, you’re guilty of something.//
Exactly and they don’t need this to manufacture it. It isn’t about collecting as much as creating and they can and have done this long before now.
You people are worried about too little way too late.
But, but, Marco Rubio said Ted Cruz caused the Paris attacks because he voted to shut this down. But it wasn’t shut down yet and the attack still happened. How can that be, Marco?
Excellent point the Cruz campaign should respond on that basis.
...And perfectly believable.
I'm sure all those records will stop, and be disposed of, just like the 4473 Firearm Background Check documents.
” represents the greatest reduction of U.S. spying capabilities “
Lol.
They will continue the program under a different name.
And the mass surveillance of citizens will continue.
All “for your own good” of course.
Wonder if the end goal isn’t stopping enemies from killing us, but to root out those “disloyal” to the regime?
Think you're a good citizen and not violating any laws? You'd be mistaken. If the government wants you out of the way, you're guilty of something. It's just a matter of collecting enough info on you to find out.
Why would the Fed do this? Power.
One of the most powerful tools they've had with this program is that they use it to connect things together. Anyone can be connected to anyone if you are willing to stretch things a bit. (think - Kevin Bacon). This can be a powerful hammer to use against even the most innocent individual.
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