<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Chief NSA Lawyer Hints That NSA May Be Tracking US Citizens<br />|   from the  this-story-may-exist dept.<br />|   posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26,  @16:33 (Government)<br />|   with 163 comments<br />|   <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]itwbennett  writes "Responding to questions from the Senate Select<br />Committee on  Intelligence yesterday, Matthew Olsen, the NSA's general<br />counsel, said that  the NSA 'may', under 'certain circumstances' have the<br />authority to [1]track  U.S. citizens by intercepting location data from<br />cell phones, but it's 'very  complicated.' 'There's no need to panic, or<br />start shopping for aluminum-foil  headwear,' says blogger Kevin Fogarty,<br />but clearly the NSA has been thinking  about it enough 'that the agency's<br />chief lawyer was able to speak  intelligently about it off the cuff while<br />interviewing for a different  job.'"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href="http://www.itworld.com/">http://www.itworld.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href="http://www.itworld.com/security/186733/can-nsa-and-cia-use-your-phone-track-your-location">http://www.itworld.com/security/186733/can-nsa-and-cia-use-your-phone-track-your-location</a><br /><br /></p>