I've wildarse speculated that Yahoo search was to find IRGC. https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/10/05/breaking-state-sponsored-terrorists-operating-us-2015/ … Remember: Europe is lukewarm on Hezb being terrorists.
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My point, if I'm not missing yours: mistake to assume that as long as something is not US Person, it's a collection free-for-all
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Not my assumption at all. But I AM saying the Yahoo technique is going to bother the Europeans, 1/2
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Especially if they don't agree w/US about whether the target is really a terrorist org. 2/2
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Can't speak to Europeans agreeing with things, but Perhaps I misunderstood when you said "all of Yahoo's European users' email".
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Yahoo scan is described as scan of content of all incoming email. Only positive hits reviewed, but all emails scanned.
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I'm not questioning that the selector was narrow (the terrorist group that might be IRGC). But technique does implicate all.
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Searching "all" of something (even if foreign) = not the way foreign SIGINT works in principle or practice. See DIRNSA comments.
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Here is where we arrive at the impasse of what precisely constitutes "collection", "searching", "all", etc. in this context. :-/
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