The government has insisted, for example, that the companies with which the NSA partners under the Prism program don't simply permit intelligence agencies to troll through their systems and servers hunting for malefactors: they provide the government with user data only in response to targeted requests that use a specific "hard selector" like an e-mail address or user ID.
That office has been pursuing a surveillance system called Total Information Awareness that would permit intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials to mount a vast dragnet through electronic transaction data ranging from credit card information to veterinary records, in the United States and internationally, to hunt for terrorists.
The NYPD, under commissioner Ray Kelly, interpreted the revised guidelines to permit intelligence-gathering on Muslim restaurants, mosques and neighborhoods, including Zazi's.
CMPs add a more versatile legal weapon to the government's armoury, permitting intelligence to be introduced into a case while withholding it in full from a claimant.
CMPs add a new legal weapon to the government's armoury, permitting intelligence to be introduced into a case but withheld in full from a claimant.
The Patriot Act provision, known as Section 215, permits intelligence and law enforcement agencies to acquire from a service provider records of someone's communications – such as phone calls or email records – that are relevant to a terrorism or espionage investigation.
He asked lawmakers to make his tax cuts permanent, and implored them to renew legislation permitting intelligence officials to eavesdrop on the communications of terrorism suspects and to provide legal immunity to phone companies that have helped in the wiretapping efforts.
Today, the United State Senate reauthorized a controversial Obama-supported surveillance law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA), which permits intelligence agencies to monitor international communications, sometimes without a warrant and little court oversight.
It permits us, with a marvellous neutrality, and later it may permit artificial intelligence, humanity 2.0, or a lot more bugs instead.
The petition argued that the review court had misinterpreted the USA Patriot Act to permit foreign intelligence wiretaps to be used for law enforcement purposes.
But it could permit what intelligence analysts and commercial data miners refer to as "link analysis," a statistical technique for investigators to identify calling patterns in a seemingly impenetrable mountain of digital data.
