The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702
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March 20, 2026
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The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing...
Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you…
Taking bets on creative re-interpretations of NSA legality. My money is on “it’s legal if it’s not a human doing it”.
- Transcribing every unencrypted call “it’s not a recording”
- AI analyzing all the conversations “AI has no biases, neutral summary of suspects”
- An AI gives everybody a patriot score with a summary available if an NSA agent clicks the button
- All the browsing history is being summarized for real time tracking of everything unencrypted
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