- if they aren't targeting specific persons, how do they know what country the person is from & if they (the govt) are violating the law?
- if I'm American living in another country, am I safer from or more likely to be tracked (terrorism aside) Am I being picked up "freely" as someone from outside the country?
- many, many, many similar questions I'm sure you are also asking
I realize these seem rather naive questions, but my first thought on reading Obama's response was, "How can you possibly know what country the person is a citizen of?"
Considering that that was a major part of his defense - "Don't worry, it's only those foreign people we're looking at"- I really think that needs to be a bigger part of the whole discussion.
It is unlikely bullshit.
They are likely not indiscriminate in targeting.
It's just likely post-hoc targeting.
That's the question you really want to ask: "So do you capture all the data, and then only look at the data for foreign people, or do you only capture data for foreign people?"
At one point, with watchwords/etc, it was clearly the latter. I think they've moved to the former.
- if they aren't targeting specific persons, how do they know what country the person is from & if they (the govt) are violating the law?
- if I'm American living in another country, am I safer from or more likely to be tracked (terrorism aside) Am I being picked up "freely" as someone from outside the country?
- many, many, many similar questions I'm sure you are also asking
I realize these seem rather naive questions, but my first thought on reading Obama's response was, "How can you possibly know what country the person is a citizen of?"
Considering that that was a major part of his defense - "Don't worry, it's only those foreign people we're looking at"- I really think that needs to be a bigger part of the whole discussion.
I think it is quite obviously more bullshit.