Violating Americans’ privacy "not just unethical but illegal," senator says.

NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data::Violating Americans’ privacy “not just unethical but illegal,” senator says.

    • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      The Snowden leaks proved that the NSA was spying on Americans, but the excuse back then was that it was “just metadata” and since then the narrative has focused on Snowden being in Russia and that therefore he must be a Russian plant and that we should all focus on that instead of the fact that this unconstitutional program exists and that we’re all being spied on by our own government.

    • moistclump@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I have t read the article yet but followed to Snowden story closely. On the surface, i think the purchase part is different.

      In the last interview I saw with him, he mentioned end to end encryption makes a bit of a difference, wonder if this is affected by that?

      • rottingleafEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Could be some loophole where reading something unencrypted can be compared to open radio transmissions, while cracking encryption to opening paper mail.

        (Just imagining.)