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user-inactivated · 3538 days ago · link · · parent · post: XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Search Engine for the World’s Private Communications
Like I said, I understand that. This system seems to target overseas communications, not domestic. The link you provided for the DEA was referencing cell phone meta data, which is a different program from this one. I'm saying that this program has little to do with domestic privacy concerns. And either way, the DEA's parallel construction argument makes it very difficult to prove that the SOD in the link is doing anything that Reuters is alleging, so we can't really use it as an example. There is collateral information collected as in any broad net operation, but using it to further criminal prosecution is specifically prohibited by both the Posse Comitatus Act and USSID 18 (formerly SPOO 18).