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This already exists with rubber stamp FISA courts (a rejection rate of 0.03 percent) for citizens and non-citizens. It is just a difference of degree and scale (the APIization of everything).

There are also other workarounds to FISA courts including the “willful“ volunteering of information and tools (or else), using the NSA and their tools, and other foreign “friendly” collaborators like the Five Eyes, or German intelligence etc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

https://www.dw.com/en/report-us-germany-spied-on-countries-f...

https://www.rt.com/usa/qwest-ceo-nsa-jail-604/

Here is some details on historical spying (a much smaller scale because of the smaller digital footprint)for the curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

parent 1cvmask 6 years ago

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