Be careful what you joke about online, in emails, on phone calls, in SMS, and more -- these agencies are allowed to search raw NSA survelliance data and refer "criminal" data unrelated to what they requested access for to the DoJ -- and they all have no right to unreasonably search our persons, papers, and effects without a warrant, and none of this data was obtained with one. I have a hard time believing this wouldn't result in chilled speech and arrests over sarcasm and jokes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/u...ions.html?_r=0
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...lections.shtml
The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.
Previously, the N.S.A. filtered information before sharing intercepted communications with another agency, like the C.I.A. or the intelligence branches of the F.B.I. and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The N.S.A.’s analysts passed on only information they deemed pertinent, screening out the identities of innocent people and irrelevant personal information.
Now, other intelligence agencies will be able to search directly through raw repositories of communications intercepted by the N.S.A. and then apply such rules for “minimizing” privacy intrusions.
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