YourNewsWire (via Reuters) 4-29-17… “Trump Vindicated: NSA Ends Mass Surveillance Of Citizens”

I personally do not know how we can “trust the NSA” to do what it says it will do. Perhaps they will. But at least this piece says something which looks positive (the Reuters article is the primary source).

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Trump Vindicated: NSA Ends Mass Surveillance Of Citizens

“The NSA has announced plans to stop all forms of surveillance on American citizens, vindicating President Trump who was victim of illegal wiretapping by the agency.

Reuters announced on Friday that the agency no longer have the ability to wiretap without a warrant the digital communications of Americans who mention a foreign intelligence target.”

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U.S. spy agency abandons controversial surveillance technique

” The U.S. National Security Agency said on Friday it had stopped a form of surveillance that allowed it to collect without a warrant the digital communications of Americans who mentioned a foreign intelligence target in their messages, marking an unexpected triumph for privacy advocates long critical of the practice.

“”NSA will no longer collect certain internet communications that merely mention a foreign intelligence target,” the agency said in a statement. “Instead, NSA will limit such collection to internet communications that are sent directly to or from a foreign target.” NSA also said it would delete the “vast majority” of internet data collected under the surveillance program “to further protect the privacy of U.S. person communications.”

“Democratic Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement he would introduce legislation “banning this kind of collection in the future.”

“Pieces of differing bits of digital traffic are often packaged together as they travel across the internet. Part of the issue with “about” collection stemmed from how an entire packet of information would be vacuumed up if one part of it contained information, such as an email address or phone number, connected to a foreign target.”