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An posted on The New York Times website today lays out in chilling detail how the National Security Agency is sucking up every piece of communication data in America 鈥� from phone calls to emails to cell phone location 鈥� and has the ability to tie together all of the information for a single person ().

The system is explained by William Binney, a code breaker who resigned from the NSA in protest over the Bush administration鈥檚 warrantless wiretapping regime. He says that after 9/11, the methods he helped create for spying on foreign powers became pointed domestically 鈥� not toward people suspected of terrorism ties, but toward all Americans.

The video is by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who has had , and is working on a longer film on this subject. Laying out the legal and political battle over this out-of-control surveillance, she writes,

The 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which oversees the N.S.A. activities, are up for renewal in December. Two members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senators , both Democrats, are trying to revise the amendments to insure greater privacy protections. They have been warning about of laws and backdoor 鈥渓oopholes鈥� that allow the government to collect our private communications. Thirteen senators have expressing concern about a 鈥渓oophole鈥� in the law that permits the collection of United States data. The A.C.L.U. and other groups have also challenged the constitutionality of the law, and the Supreme Court will hear arguments in that case on Oct. 29.

Today鈥檚 Times also has an by The Washingtonian鈥檚 Shane Harris, in which he warns of the lack of privacy protections in the current system:

The N.S.A. adopted many鈥� ideas except for two: an application that would 鈥渁nonymize鈥� data, so that information could be linked to a person only through a court order; and a set of audit logs, which would keep track of whether innocent Americans鈥� communications were getting caught in a digital net.

Legislators have the opportunity to rein in the NSA by revising the law before it expires that the end of this year. The 老澳门开奖结果 is calling for amendments that would limit surveillance to suspected terrorists and criminals, require the government to be more transparent about how the law is being used, and place stronger restrictions on the retention and dissemination of information that is collected. .

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