8/29/2023 0 Comments Xkeyscore search engine![]() Congress reauthorised that law (up to 2023) without major changes in 2018 IN THE UK *In September last year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled UK’s mass surveillance activities (which were revealed by Snowden) unlawful. It’s controversial because when foreign targets communicate with Americans, the government collects those Americans’ emails and other private messages without a warrant, too. But before NSA gets the copies, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has to agree that there is “reasonable, articulable suspicion” that the seed target is linked to terrorism *NSA’s warrantless surveillance programme is now conducted under a law called Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. ANY SAFEGUARDS? IN THE US *Changes made by Congress in a 2015 law, the USA Freedom Act, overhauled how the NSA can gain access to domestic telecom data *Under the new system, bulk records stay with the phone companies but the NSA can get copies of all records of a target and everyone with whom a target has been in contact.
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