Tag: US: Assaults Privacy

NOVANEWS Assessment and Analysis by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Creators Syndicate During the past three weeks, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law vast new powers for the NSA and the FBI to spy on innocent Americans and selectively to pass on to law enforcement the fruits of that spying.  Those fruits can now lawfully include all fiber-optic data transmitted to or in the United States, such as digital recordings of all landline and mobile telephone calls and copies in real time of all text messages and emails and banking, medical and legal records electronically stored or transmitted. All this bulk surveillance had come about because the National Security Agency convinced federal judges meeting in secret that they should auth...