Microsoft Says US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Requests More Than Doubled (reuters.com)

Microsoft Corp says it received at least a thousand surveillance requests from the U.S. government that sought user content for foreign intelligence purposes during the first half of 2016. From a report: The amount, shared in Microsoft's biannual transparency report, was more than double what the company said it received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the preceding six-month interval, and was the highest the company has listed since 2011, when it began tracking such government surveillance orders. The scope of spying authority granted to U.S. intelligence agencies under FISA has come under renewed scrutiny in recent weeks, sparked in part by evolving, unsubstantiated assertions from President Donald Trump and other Republicans that the Obama White House improperly spied on Trump and his associates.

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This summary is schizophrenic

[halivar]

First half: We are totes spying.
Second half: Claims of spying are unsubstantiated.

Re:This summary is schizophrenic

[Mr D from 63]

You literally have to read it over a couple of times to grasp that the article is really about President Obama's spying and has nothing to do with Trump.

Some might not want to remember who was in office in 2016.

How much via telemetry

[Alain Williams]

How many of those FISA requests were satisfied via Microsoft's telemetry capabilities ? Ie extract stuff directly from the Win 10 PC and send to the USA government ? I doubt that we shall ever know.

Pointless Political Jab

[OYAHHH]

There really was no reason to include the Trump jab in the summary. If you look at the article the summary could have easily stopped at the paragraph prior to the one including the Trump jab.

Based upon the comments I am seeing here it has skewed the commentary in a direction that doesn't add to the discussion.