Wiretapping focus shifts to email, as firms move data overseas

Wiretapping focus shifts to email, as firms move data overseas

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Microsoft, Google don't deny participation in NSA program

Little-noticed comments by a senior Justice Department official suggest Congress' fight over renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act surround interception of email and Internet data.

At a Monday breakfast sponsored by the American Bar Association, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth Wainstein remarked that the fight over the eavesdropping bill actually centers on US interception of email.

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Oh, so couldn't find any terrorists to track... Now it's on to more American citizens over the internet and email, eh? :shk:

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[edit on 7-3-2008 by TrueAmerican]