Director of National Intelligence Admits Government Used Section 215 to Track Browsing History

[Tutman]

Content source

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/03/director-national-intelligence-admits-government-used-section-215-track-browsing

After initially denying the practice, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe admitted the government engaged in activity "that could be characterized" as tracking website visits.

 

[SpiderWeb]

Yay, transparency lol.

 

[oldschool]

Yay, transparency lol.

Ratcliffe wrote to Wyden to admit that "one of those 61 orders resulted in the production of information that could be characterized as information regarding browsing," and that one order approved the collection of data regarding computers "in a specified foreign country" that were used to visit "a single, identified U.S. web page."

LOL - one unidentified website.

 

[FireHammer]

It is, I feel the need to use other words, not very nice!

 

[Ink]

The Government you can trust. No to Encryption, Yes to Backdoors. Because We Trust You.