NSA concedes violating surveillance limits and pledges curbs on US email collection

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NSA agrees to cease so-called ‘about’ surveillance under 2008 legal authority

 

But agency has not indicated whether such data collection will stop wholesale

 

Spencer Ackerman in New York

Friday 28 April 2017 21.59 BST

 

The NSA has assured intelligence officials that it will limit its vast interception of US communications that transit the internet, known as ‘upstream’ collection, under section 702.

Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/nsa-stops-surveillance-us-residents-foreign-targets