{"id":12069,"date":"2016-03-11T10:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=12069"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:29:20","slug":"surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/03\/11\/surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back,\u00a0we noted a report<\/a>\u00a0showing that the\u00a0\u201csneak-and-peek\u201d provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases.\u00a0Now the New York Times reports<\/a> that National Security Agency data will be shared with other intelligence agencies like the FBI without first applying any screens for privacy. The ACLU of Massachusetts blog Privacy SOS explains why this is important<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What does this rule change mean for you? In short,\u00a0domestic law enforcement officials\u00a0now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages. FBI agents don\u2019t need to have any \u201cnational security\u201d related reason to plug your name, email address, phone number, or other \u201cselector\u201d into the NSA\u2019s gargantuan data trove. They can simply poke around in your private information in the course of totally routine<\/a> investigations. And if they find something that suggests, say, involvement in illegal drug activity, they can send that information to local or state police.\u00a0That means information the NSA collects\u00a0for purposes of so-called \u201cnational security\u201d will be used by police to lock up ordinary Americans for routine crimes. And we don\u2019t have to guess who\u2019s going to suffer this unconstitutional indignity the most brutally. It\u2019ll be Black, Brown, poor, immigrant, Muslim, and dissident Americans: the same people who are always<\/em> targeted by law enforcement for extra \u201cspecial\u201d attention.<\/blockquote>\n

This basically formalizes what was already happening under the radar. We\u2019ve known for a couple of years now that the Drug Enforcement Administration<\/a>\u00a0and the IRS<\/a> were getting information from the NSA. Because that information was obtained without a warrant, the agencies were instructed to engage in \u201cparallel construction\u201d<\/a> when explaining to courts and defense attorneys how the information had been\u00a0obtained. If you think\u00a0parallel construction<\/em> just sounds like a bureaucratically sterilized way of saying\u00a0big stinking lie<\/i>, well, you wouldn\u2019t be alone.<\/a>\u00a0And it certainly isn\u2019t the only\u00a0time that\u00a0that national security apparatus\u00a0has let law enforcement agencies benefit from policies that are supposed to be reserved for terrorism investigations in order to get around the Fourth Amendment, then\u00a0instructed those law enforcement agencies\u00a0to misdirect, fudge and\u00a0outright lie <\/a>about how they obtained incriminating information \u2014 see the Stingray debacle. This isn\u2019t\u00a0just a\u00a0few rogue agents. The lying has\u00a0been\u00a0a matter of policy. <\/i><\/a>We\u2019re now learning that the feds had these agreements with police agencies<\/a>\u00a0all over <\/a>thecountry<\/a>, affecting thousands<\/a> of cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, I guess it\u2019s better that this new data-sharing policy is acknowledged in the open instead of carried out surreptitiously. On the other hand, there\u2019s something even more ominous\u00a0about the fact that they\u00a0no longer feel as though they need to hide it.<\/p>\n

Full article: Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism – The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back,\u00a0we noted a report\u00a0showing that the\u00a0\u201csneak-and-peek\u201d provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases.\u00a0Now the New York Times reports that National Security Agency data will be shared with other intelligence agencies like the FBI without first applying any screens for privacy. The ACLU of Massachusetts blog Privacy SOS explains why this is important: What does this rule change mean for you? In short,\u00a0domestic law enforcement officials\u00a0now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages. FBI agents don\u2019t need to have any \u201cnational security\u201d related reason to plug your name, email address, phone number, or other \u201cselector\u201d into the NSA\u2019s gargantuan data trove. They can simply poke around in your private information in the course of totally routine investigations. And if they find something that suggests, say, involvement in illegal drug activity, they can send that information to local or state police.\u00a0That means information the NSA collects\u00a0for purposes of so-called \u201cnational security\u201d will be used by police to lock up ordinary Americans for routine crimes. And we don\u2019t have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1245],"class_list":["post-12069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}