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The agency’s internal policies… | blogjou

Edward Snowden

Permanent Record

p. 230
12 Nov 2019

The agency's internal policies...


The agency’s internal policies neither regarded your data as your legally protected personal property, nor regarded their collection of that data as a “search” or “seizure”. Instead, the NSA maintained that because you had already “shared” your phone records with a “third party” - your telephone service provider - you had forfeited any constitutional privacy interest you once mau have had.