NSA Lawyer: Phone Surveillance Uses Stop-and-Frisk Standards

[Indi Guy]

Last edited Tue Nov 5, 2013, 01:40 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: NEWSMAX

Intelligence officials say National Security Agency workers follow the same standards in accessing phone surveillance data as those guiding law enforcement's stop-and-frisk policy,The Hill reports.

NSA workers have to demonstrate "reasonable and articulable suspicion" when they want to troll through specific information that's part of NSA's massive data collection on all U.S. calls.

"It’s effectively the same standard as stop-and-risk," NSA General Counsel Rajesh De said Monday during a hearing held by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which supervises anti-terrorism surveillance programs.

New York City police say stop-and-frisk is an effective crime-prevention tool, but a federal judge ruled the strategy amounted to "indirect racial profiling" and ordered reforms. That ruling has since been blocked by an appeals court....

Read more: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/nsa-surveillance-stop-frisk/2013/11/04/id/534750

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Original article from The Hill:

[font size="4"]Official: NSA's work is like ‘stop and frisk’[/font]

Intelligence officials say National Security Agency workers follow the same standards in accessing phone surveillance data as those guiding law enforcement's stop-and-frisk policy, The Hill reports.

NSA workers have to demonstrate "reasonable and articulable suspicion" when they want to troll through specific information that's part of NSA's massive data collection on all U.S. calls.

"It’s effectively the same standard as stop-and-risk," NSA General Counsel Rajesh De said Monday during a hearing held by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which supervises anti-terrorism surveillance programs.

New York City police say stop-and-frisk is an effective crime-prevention tool, but a federal judge ruled the strategy amounted to "indirect racial profiling" and ordered reforms. That ruling has since been blocked by an appeals court...

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/189141-phone-data-surveillance-like-%E2%80%98stop-and-frisk%E2%80%99-intelligence-officials

[christx30]

1. Well, that should satisfy all the concerns on DU

[Indi Guy]

8. Oh yeah wise guy?

OK, empty your pockets.

[Live and Learn]

2. Stop and Frisk is illegal too. So yeah, I guess they are using similar standards. nt

[Th1onein]

3. They should not be COLLECTING our information. PERIOD.

It's not a matter of looking through it, once they have it. It's a matter of taking it in the first place.

[woo me with science]

4. Thank you. This is a deliberate strategy in the propaganda.

They are constantly trying to portray the mass collection of data as a given and focus the controversy on what happens afterward, as though the Fourth Amendment did not even exist.

They are corporate fascists using our tax dollars to create and justify a criminal surveillance state.

[ronnie624]

9. Exactly.

How on earth can anyone believe there is nothing amiss with our government having detailed dossiers on every man woman and child? Can they not see the power and control this grants the government over our lives and the inherent potential for abuse therein?

Fucking bizarre.

[Kelvin Mace]

5. Could you link to the original story

from The Hill instead of Newsmax, please?

Let's not give traffic to the crazies.

[Indi Guy]

7. OK The link was broken but is working now... I'll edit the OP.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/189141-phone-data-surveillance-like-%E2%80%98stop-and-frisk%E2%80%99-intelligence-officials

[Kelvin Mace]

11. Thanks!

[bemildred]

10. And the desperate search for a rationale for this voyeurism continues. nt