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logn on Feb 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obama to urge tech firms to share data with govern...

> The US President has no authority to order firms to share data with the government.

Only the FISA court can do that. Otherwise the NSA has to steal the data fair and square under EO 12333.

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