![]() ![]() The private companies can easily do these searches when asked by the government. Pro-data-grab politicians say the government uses the data and its search capabilities for things like finding American citizens who are interacting with identified international terrorists. To use the XKeyscore (XKS) system, an NSA analyst taps in a few search parameters, a justification (i.e no formal warrant is required), and presses Enter. These companies already have it, so the government wouldn't have to do something to get it like tap directly into servers - as they're already doing with (at least) nine Internet companies. There is no Fourth Amendment violation until the government seizes it - this preempts that. The solution? Rather than forcing communications companies to turn over the data - why not pay them to store and search it? The federal government absolutely should not be unilaterally seizing and storing this unfathomable amount of information, let alone allowing thousands of low-level staffers to search it whenever they alone decide. So we should do with national security for what we long ago called for in Cyber Security - outsource the first line of defense. The purpose of XKeyscore is to allow analysts to search the metadata as well as the content of emails and other internet activity, such as browser history.XKeyscore provides the technological capability, if not the legal authority, to target even US persons for extensive electronic surveillance without a warrant.Obtain ongoing "real-time" interception of an individual's internet activity.Snowden's latest revelation is a program called XKeyscore (XKS), which allows low-level National Security Agency (NSA) analysts to: Time and again the Barack Obama administration denies Snowden's claims - even though time and again he has the documentation. ![]() It seems like every week since we first heard of Edward Snowden he delivers an even worse example of the federal government's unconstitutional collection and abuse of our data. Who do you have more confidence in%3F The private sector or the federal government%3F.Rather than force communications companies to turn over data%2C let them store and search it.NSA programs are incredible violation of the Constitution%27s Fourth Amendment. ![]()
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