{"id":48909,"date":"2019-10-08T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48909"},"modified":"2019-10-08T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T20:51:50","slug":"fbi-use-of-foreign-surveillance-tool-violated-privacy-rights-fisa-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48909","title":{"rendered":"FBI Use Of Foreign-Surveillance Tool Violated Privacy Rights: FISA Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FBI Use Of Foreign-Surveillance Tool Violated Privacy Rights: FISA Court<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The FBI’s use of electronic surveillance tools violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans<\/strong> whose communications were swept up in a controversial foreign intelligence program, according to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The court concluded that the FBI had been improperly searching through a database of raw intelligence for information on Americans, <\/strong>according to the Wall Street Journa<\/a>l<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling, made last year, was disclosed on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intelligence community disclosed Tuesday that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last year found that the FBI\u2019s pursuit of data about Americans ensnared in a warrantless internet-surveillance program intended to target foreign suspects may have violated the law authorizing the program, as well as the Constitution\u2019s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.<\/p>

The court concluded that the FBI had been improperly searching a database of raw intelligence for information on Americans\u2014raising concerns about oversight of the program, which as a spy program operates in near total secrecy. –WSJ<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

According to the FISA court, tens of thousands of improper searches were conducted by the Bureau in 2017 and 2018<\/strong>. They were deemed improper in part due to the involvement of data relating to tens of thousands of emails or phone numbers<\/strong>. Moreover, the<\/strong> FBI was potentially using the intelligence information to vet personnel and cooperating sources<\/strong>. Per federal law, the database can only be searched by the FBI while seeking evidence of a crime or for foreign intelligence information.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other cases, the court ruling reveals improper use of the database by individuals. In one case, an FBI contractor ran a query of an intelligence database\u2014searching information on himself, other FBI personnel and his relatives, the court revealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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FBI Use Of Foreign-Surveillance Tool Violated Privacy Rights: FISA Court The FBI’s use of electronic surveillance tools violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans whose communications were swept up in a controversial foreign intelligence program, according to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.  The court concluded that the FBI had been improperly searching through a database of raw intelligence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23749,301,6282,5570,27338],"class_list":["post-48909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-electronic-surveillance","tag-fbi","tag-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-privacy-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48910,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48909\/revisions\/48910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}