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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuick question about the FISA Court
FISA Court, doesn't that "F" stand for Foreign? If so how does it have jurisdiction over Verizon, a domestic company?
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Quick question about the FISA Court (Original Post)
1-Old-Man
Jun 2013
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dkf
(37,305 posts)1. Great question! And how are they allowed to store mass quantities of domestic data?
Loudly
(2,436 posts)2. I was surprised to learn how much foreign to foreign telecommunications traffic
actually passes thru technological assets under U.S. jurisdiction.
That both blurs the line between foreign and domestic and makes national security and anti-terrorism monitoring so powerful under the laws which sanction it.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)3. Mission creep n/t
Recursion
(56,582 posts)4. Verizon has a few hundred million foreign customers
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