NSA Hearings...

[Stoo]

Interesting to watch. Assistant Attorney General says warrants were not required in most cases as citizens have "no expectation of privacy" when it comes to phone calls since the phone company etc already have information on who they call etc.

He also reaffirmed that they didn't listen to "content"... only noted the connections...

I bet.

 

[Aardvark154]

Interesting to watch. Assistant Attorney General says warrants were not required in most cases as citizens have "no expectation of privacy" when it comes to phone calls since the phone company etc already have information on who they call etc.

A long established point in U.S. Law, for decades municipalities have been able to obtain such records of who was called merely by asking for them.

 

[SchlongConery]

Aside from the interesting wikipedia entry on CSEC many years ago I had occasion to hear from someone I believe had good reason to know what he was talking about that:

CSEC and the NSA has long had automated voice recognition technology that sniffed for key words in telephone conversations. That once those key words were spoken, that the entire (buffered) conversation was then recorded.

Subsequently, a human intelligence analyst would then review the conversation and refer it to the appropriate authority for further investigation.

Problem was that there are way too many conversations with those key words to ever analyze by humans.

I read in the news that CSEC is building a huge billion dollar data center near Ottawa to handle future needs.

 

[Stoo]

Sigh... the end of privacy. Closer to home, my employer is moving to a cloud-based email/calendar/doc storage system hosted by Google. The Google fine print says that pretty much everything within this system is fair game to both Google and my employer.... contacts, emails, documents.

Time to set up a parallel system... I prefer my employer to not know when I'm at my favorite rub n' tug.

 

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A long established point in U.S. Law, for decades municipalities have been able to obtain such records of who was called merely by asking for them.

sadly this is true