Specifically, I am asking the Attorney General and DNI to institute reforms that place additional restrictions on government's ability to retain, search, and use in criminal cases, communications between Americans and foreign citizens incidentally collected under Section 702.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Hayes added: "The effect of this judgment would be that in certain cases, communications data that could potentially save lives would only be available to the police and other law enforcement if a communications company had decided to retain it for commercial reasons.
But House officials confirmed Saturday that the case involved communications Ms. Waters had in fall 2008 with federal officials that at least indirectly touched on the fate of OneUnited, a Boston-based bank with branches in Massachusetts, Florida and California.
In this case, the communications effort, which includes the information center, based in a Shell-owned training and conference center in Robert, La., consists of roughly 65 employees, 10 of whom work for BP, Coast Guard officials said.
A House ethics subcommittee has charged Ms. Waters, 71, a 10-term congresswoman, in a case involving communications that she had with the top executive of a bank that her husband owned stock in while it was applying for a federal bailout in 2008, two House officials said.
These databases can be accessed not just by the police and security services but by dozens of other public authorities, and in the case of communications data, without the need for suspicion of criminality or prior sign-off from a judge or other independent official.
But that wasn't always the case for communications companies such as Verizon.
LinkedIn, is even more explicit than FaceBook is, in trying to become a person's primary stop for vital, in this case professional, communications, as it is functionally a digital Rolodex.
Commenting on the operational cases, the Open Rights Group's executive director Jim Killock objected to another lack of specificity: "The updated operational case for communications data shows again just how extensive the government's surveillance regimes is, with a large number of government organisations and local authorities being able to access our personal communications data".
