{"id":21210,"date":"2016-03-11T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T21:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21210"},"modified":"2016-03-11T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T21:13:40","slug":"wapo-surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21210","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2016\/03\/10\/surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism\/?tid=pm_opinions_pop_b\">Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism<\/a> by Radley Balko:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A while back, we noted a report showing that the \u201csneak-and-peek\u201d provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases. Now the New York Times reports that National Security Agency data will be shared with other intelligence agencies like the FBI without first applying any screens for privacy. The ACLU of Massachusetts blog Privacy SOS explains why this is important:<\/p>\n<p>What does this rule change mean for you? In short, domestic law enforcement officials now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages. FBI agents don\u2019t need to have any \u201cnational security\u201d related reason to plug your name, email address, phone number, or other \u201cselector\u201d into the NSA\u2019s gargantuan data trove. They can simply poke around in your private information in the course of totally routine investigations. And if they find something that suggests, say, involvement in illegal drug activity, they can send that information to local or state police. That means information the NSA collects for purposes of so-called \u201cnational security\u201d will be used by police to lock up ordinary Americans for routine crimes. And we don\u2019t have to guess who\u2019s going to suffer this unconstitutional indignity the most brutally. It\u2019ll be Black, Brown, poor, immigrant, Muslim, and dissident Americans: the same people who are always targeted by law enforcement for extra \u201cspecial\u201d attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210","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=21210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21211,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210\/revisions\/21211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}