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  • Thank you. I'm using this information to create a plausible scenario for decrypting data my encryption algorithm produced. My goal is to identity the correct authorities for civil and government authorities that can make such a request. So a court order is needed for corporations. Is there any governmental authority that OKs the arbitrary search of data? e.g. a specific division of the FBI, NSA, etc? Commented Aug 25, 2015 at 17:57
  • Post 9/11 many different government agencies have acquired this authority with national security being the umbrella that widened the net allowing for the authority without court oversight. Commented Aug 25, 2015 at 18:00
  • 6/1 Patriot Act expired but by the next day large portions of it were extended. Look at this cnn.com/2015/05/30/politics/… and then this ibtimes.com/… Commented Aug 25, 2015 at 18:04
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    USA rights to privacy, such as they are, only extend to USA citizens (worldwide) and non-citizens within the USA. Same with UK rights to privacy: they only apply to non-citizens within the UK, or the UK citizens worldwide. Part of the known "benefit" of the USA-Australia-UK-NZ-Canada "Five Eyes" security agreement is the USA can use their UK intelligence gathering partners to spy on USA citizens without violating the USA constitution, and the UK can use their USA intelligence partners to spy on UK citizens without violating the UK constitution. Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 1:00
  • "Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden described the Five Eyes as a "supra-national intelligence organization that does not answer to the known laws of its own countries". Documents leaked by Snowden in 2013 revealed that the FVEY has been spying on one another's citizens and sharing the collected information with each other, although the FVEY nations maintain that this was done legally." (they openly admit to using each other as constitutional loopholes to spying on their own citizens, since they aren't permitted to do so directly (but they do that too, despite illegalities). Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 1:04