Update : CNET has sinceupdated its storyto reflect that the government does , in fact , take a warrant to take heed to your headphone call .
In a “ clandestine briefing ” to Congress the NSA confirmed that their analysts canlistento phone calls without a warrant and totally at their single delicacy . So . . . not just metadata . You eff thing have gotten unearthly because at this point it ’s not even that surprising .
The ability to survey domestic phone call at will stems from an interpreting of Union surveillance law that in all likelihood also extend to accessing and reading school text , IMs and Es - ring mail . There have been other indication that the NSA has admittance to all of our domesticated and international calls , and there have beenreportson how they organize all that gabbing in case they ever require to go back and check something out . In 2009 the New York Times ran astoryindicating that the NSA was engaging in “ overcollection , ” but this is the first time the NSA is detailing what ’s going on .

The news validates some ofEdward Snowden‘s claims about operations within the NSA . There was also a House Intelligence get together in 2007 where the then - Director of National Intelligence , Michael McConnell , discussed the fact that the NSA was compose a database of phone calls and communications approachable by NSA employee . Today McConnell is thevice chairmanof Booz Allen Hamilton . Because of course .
https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-guy-who-spilled-the-beans-on-the-nsa-512187779
Congressman Jerrold Nadler , a Democrat from New York who serve on the House Judiciary commission , speak about the unchained accession key in the recent clandestine meeting . “ I was rather startled , ” he said . Definitely one means of putting it . [ CNET ]

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