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It is thought that individual warrants are not being obtained to justify each inquiry.
Legislation prevents unauthorised disclosure of any detail about individual warrants, and intercepted material is not admissible in court.
Other stories centred on programmes that allowed for large-scale collection of people's data without any individual warrants.
Far more metadata is stored than content, and the call records of UK citizens can be accessed without individual warrants.
Since then, the government has asked FISA judges to approve entire surveillance programs, not just individual warrants.
Bipartisan criticism is mounting in Congress about the NSA's collection and stockpiling of millions of Americans' phone records without individual warrants or suspicions of connections to terrorism.
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To intentionally target either of those groups requires an individual warrant.
But this is of a generic nature and not made on an individual warrant basis.
The interception and communication of data should be authorised through an individual warrant signed by a secretary of state".
The trouble is the report then gets too reassuring: it states that UK individuals cannot be searched for without an individual warrant signed by a minister, but does not preclude UK individuals having their communications read without such a warrant.
The NSA is required by law to target only non-US persons without an individual warrant, but it can collect the content and metadata of Americans' emails and calls without a warrant when such communication is with a foreign target.
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