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> In fact, “one of those 61 orders resulted in the production of information that could be characterized as information regarding browsing,” Mr. Ratcliffe wrote in the second letter. Specifically, one order had approved collection of logs revealing which computers “in a specified foreign country” had visited “a single, identified U.S. web page.”

Is this “mass surveillance?”



It's running a query over a database that mass surveillance systems have already compiled.


No, read the actual correspondence. It’s clearly talking about FISA orders that compel ISPs to produce records: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wyden...

Even civil litigation allows you to compel ISPs to produce data based on targeted searches.




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