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USA: NSA allowed to continue spying on the rest of the world

28 April 2015

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"Congress is doing nothing to limit NSA programs ostensibly targeted at foreigners that nonetheless collect vast amounts of American communications, nor to limit the agency’s mass surveillance of non-American communications. The limited reforms in the new bill affect only the one program explicitly aimed at Americans." [emphasis added]

See the article: Nearly Two Years After Snowden, Congress Poised to Do Something — Just Not Much (The Intercept, link)

See: US Freedom Act 2015 (pdf)

And see: GCHQ is authorised to spy on the world but the UK Interception of Communications Commissioner says this is OK as it is lawful (Statewatch Analysis)

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