U.S. Citizenship and N.S.A. Surveillance – Legal Safeguard or Practical Backdoor?
Freedom to Tinker 2013-10-15
Summary:
The main takeaway of two recent disclosures around N.S.A. surveillance practices, is that Americans must re-think ‘U.S. citizenship’ as the guiding legal principle to protect against untargeted surveillance of their communications. Currently, U.S. citizens may get some comfort through the usual political discourse that ‘ordinary Americans’ are protected, and this is all about foreigners. In [...]