{"id":18496,"date":"2015-08-19T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18496"},"modified":"2015-08-19T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T13:09:00","slug":"techdirt-hey-nsa-even-if-att-was-collecting-the-info-for-you-the-fourth-amendment-still-applies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18496","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Hey NSA: Even If AT&#038;T Was Collecting The Info For You, The Fourth Amendment Still Applies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20150817\/17244331990\/hey-nsa-even-if-att-was-collecting-info-you-fourth-amendment-still-applies.shtml\">Hey NSA: Even If AT&#038;T Was Collecting The Info For You, The Fourth Amendment Still Applies<\/a> by Mike Masnick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve already written a few articles about the confirmation that AT&#038;T is going above and beyond what&#8217;s required by the law to be a &#8220;valued partner&#8221; of the NSA in helping with its surveillance campaign. While it&#8217;s long been known that AT&#038;T was giving fairly direct access to its backbone (thank you Mark Klein!), the latest released documents provide much more detail &#8212; including that AT&#038;T often does the initial &#8220;sifting&#8221; before forwarding content it finds to the NSA. To some NSA apologists, this is proof that the NSA isn&#8217;t so bad, because it doesn&#8217;t have full unencumbered access to everything, but rather is relying on AT&#038;T to do the searching and then handing over what it finds. Of course, as the documents showed, it&#8217;s only in some cases that AT&#038;T searches first, in others it appears that the NSA does, in fact, have full access. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Hey NSA: Even If AT&#038;T Was Collecting The Info For You, The Fourth Amendment Still Applies by Mike Masnick: We&#8217;ve already written a few articles about the confirmation that AT&#038;T is going above and beyond what&#8217;s required by the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18496\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18497,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496\/revisions\/18497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}