[tekism]

I don't know but this sounds scary to me, we just went from threats to national security to any crime.

However—and this is especially troubling—“if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department,” the Times wrote. So information that was collected without a warrant—or indeed any involvement by a court at all—for foreign intelligence purposes with little to no privacy protections, can be accessed raw and unfiltered by domestic law enforcement agencies to prosecute Americans with no involvement in threats to national security."

[bbddg]

This is a horrible thing for privacy but would information collected this way even be admissible in court? They could use it to inform investigations but I think they would have a very hard time trying to use this information to prosecute.

[pawadu]

okay, fair point.

I assume they still cant use the information in court but that really doesn't make it much better.

[HalcyonicStorm]

I'm sure this is where parallel construction will come into play.