Before Friday, the NSA had a policy of sucking up texts and emails exchanged between Americans and people outside the U.S., with impunity, if those communications even mentioned **n-American targets of NSA surveillance. The agency did **t require a warrant to collect this information.
But the NSA an**unced Friday that it would ** longer participate in this form of collection. S**wden counted that as a win for whistleblowing.* Read more...