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maxomaiRep. Mike Rodgers (R-MI) reveals more details of the PRISM program. Via Slashdot:
Additionally we hear this from the AP:
Got that? They claim to have a list of millions of phone numbers, against which they only checked 300 numbers last year, and those checks were all done with all the proper legal measures. (In fact, I submit that we knew this in 2005.)
I want to know what criteria they used to generate that list of millions of phone numbers.
More precisely, I want to know what criteria they used to build the training data sets to train the classifiers that filtered through all our communications metadata (and probably our communications content data as well) in order to generate that list.
What are they looking for? How do they say that a phone call or text message goes into the training set or stays out?
That's what I want to know; not the details of Snowden's sex life or whatever the media are pushing now.
"If they think that's relevant to their counterterrorism investigation, they give that to the FBI. Then upon the FBI has to go out and meet all the legal standards to even get whose phone number that is."
Additionally we hear this from the AP:
... programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries — and that gathered data is destroyed every five years. Last year, fewer than 300 phone numbers were checked against the database of millions of U.S. phone records ...
Got that? They claim to have a list of millions of phone numbers, against which they only checked 300 numbers last year, and those checks were all done with all the proper legal measures. (In fact, I submit that we knew this in 2005.)
I want to know what criteria they used to generate that list of millions of phone numbers.
More precisely, I want to know what criteria they used to build the training data sets to train the classifiers that filtered through all our communications metadata (and probably our communications content data as well) in order to generate that list.
What are they looking for? How do they say that a phone call or text message goes into the training set or stays out?
That's what I want to know; not the details of Snowden's sex life or whatever the media are pushing now.
