The board acknowledges that the two NSA surveillance programs revealed by Snowden that make use of the 2008 law -- PRISM, which sends specific search terms to electronic communications service providers, and "upstream collection," in which the NSA searches the Internet backbone -- may incidentally sweep up an untold number of Americans' communications.
"If the government can prove that warrantless search of American communications keeps Americans safe, why does Wray rely on hypotheticals?" Section 702 is hotly contested for its role in a surveillance practice known as incidental collection, in which communications unrelated to a surveillance target are swept up in the process.
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"Site efforts revealed previously unknown Indonesian communications networks and postured us to increase collection in the event of a crisis".
The study was advertised in mass communications media 30 days prior to the beginning of data collection, in an effort to ease the access of interviewers to the selected women.
In 1969, he and Ms. De Menil, a photographer whom he would later marry and a member of the family that founded the Menil Collection in Houston, went to Papua New Guinea to observe the effects of modern communications on tribal peoples.
In fashioning balanced practices for reporters, it is critical to ask how often and in what ways governments — ours and others — systematically target journalists' communications in intelligence collection.
Somewhere between "2,000-10,000" of those involved multiple communications acquired in single collections, such as the e-mail inbox screenshots.
A briefing note said it would establish an "updated framework for collection, retention and acquisition of communications data" in the face of rapid technological change.
That legal interpretation is significant, several outside legal experts said, because it uses a relatively narrow area of the law — used to justify airport screenings, for instance, or drunken-driving checkpoints — and applies it much more broadly, in secret, to the wholesale collection of communications in pursuit of terrorism suspects.
