- The Fourth Amendment shields American citizens from unreasonable search and seizure of not only their person or belongings but also their private communications.
- A FISA case can allow the government to monitor a citizen suspected of acting as an “agent of a foreign power.” But still protects citizens from direct surveillance.
- If they catch some citizen content, they have a procedure to minimalization
- U.S. law 50 U.S.C. § 1801 “specific procedures … to minimize the acquisition and retention, and prohibit the dissemination, of nonpublicly available information concerning unconsenting United States persons.”
- There are two conditions to "unmask", 1. Evidence of a crime, 2. Understand intelligence information.
Lets see how this goes