NSA’s use of ‘traffic shaping’ allows unrestrained spying on Americans

The NSA can divert US citizen’s data overseas to allow the NSA to avoid Constitutional restrictions on data collection

A loophole allows NSA’s unrestrained spying on US citizens

A new analysis of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden details a highly classified technique that allows the National Security Agency to “deliberately divert” US internet traffic, normally safeguarded by constitutional protections, overseas in order to conduct unrestrained data collection on Americans.