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> when FISA is used on Americans, it's a process that involves a court-approved warrant.

What? So not being a US citizen makes us second class citizens in game of online privacy? That's ridiculous. And no, these requests were not just for individual foreign users.

> FISA orders can range from inquiries about specific people to a broad sweep for intelligence, like logs of certain search terms, lawyers who work with the orders said.

from the OP.

Who gives the US government the right to see my online private data without my consent? esp when I am not even a US citizen.




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