Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

Democratic lawmakers asked the Director of National Intelligence to provide a public clarification, about whether VPN users risk being treated as foreigners under surveillance law.

VPN services VPNs can make a user's internet traffic appear to originate from another country because they route traffic through servers that may be located abroad.

NSA targeting procedures presume persons of unknown location are non-US persons this presumption appears in declassified intelligence community guidelines.

Section 702 program Section 702 authorizes bulk interception of communications of people overseas the program targets foreigners abroad and collects large volumes of communications.

The Section 702 authorization is set to expire next month, congress is debating whether to renew it with reforms.