"privacy protections would not be extended past US citizens or permanent residents in America."
* Even if you ignore everything Snowden taught us, Its virtually impossible to enforce this.
* For example where is the one-to-one guaranteed relationship between every US based citizen / permanent-resident and their internet accounts? Geo-IP won't cut it.
* If a US citizen logs into facebook.co.uk / yahoo.co.uk / live.co.uk, are they considered fair game for snooping? How about every US citizen living or travelling aboard etc? How about an American with an overseas partner or friend? How about all illegals living inside the US? How about non-Americans using US based VPNs / Tor services etc? How about foreign expats working inside the US etc?
* The truth is everything is hoovered up and then filtered through later. When intelligence agencies are called in front of secret courts for snooping on US citizens, they'll continue to just cover that fact up, that's all...
* We're all Muslims now... Its just that the poor have more to fear, because we can't lawyer up, and won't be missed if ever renditioned to gitmo!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
