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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:21 PM Jun 2013

"Is the US spying on us foreigners?"

All this talk about "is the US spying on its own citizens...

Well let me toss this out there for you -quoted from a friend's blog:

"...while it appears recent US laws have enshrined, at least theoretically, a legal framework to decide whether a surveillance operation on US citizens may go ahead, there is not even that flimsy theoretical protection for non-US citizens. In other words, foreigners, innocent of any crime, or even suspicion of committing any crime, are fair game to have their data recorded and used at the US government's whim, with no legal recourse. This doesn't strike me as very democratic, if true..."

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"Is the US spying on us foreigners?" (Original Post) Bonobo Jun 2013 OP
It is true RobertEarl Jun 2013 #1
Only Americans have the right to privacy, apparently. Jarla Jun 2013 #2
Not anymore RobertEarl Jun 2013 #3
Interview with Bill Binney on the subject in Holland marions ghost Jun 2013 #4
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
1. It is true
Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:29 PM
Jun 2013

As a non-citizen the 4th does not cover you.

Even if your communication goes through Mexico, or Canada, which it does, and you are a citizen, you are fair game to have your data recorded and used at the whim of the government.

No wonder some of us are mad, eh? We are all being treated as foreigners!

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