SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: you'd think that spying on literally the entire world would be a bigger deal

The big deal about FISA section 702 isn't domestic surveillance of Americans, that's actually an incidental byproduct of the real program. 

The much bigger deal is that it allows the mass warrantless surveillance by the NSA of every non-American on earth, i.e. all of us...

"Americans' data" only gets captured as a consequence of this mass surveillance of all of us, when we communicate with Americans.

Pretty sad that this is what's seen as most scandalous: you'd think that spying on literally the entire world would be a bigger deal especially when, unlike Americans, we have no constitutional protections and no legal recourse...

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Prem Thakker

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42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data.

Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.