There aren‘t many details yet, but Charlie Savage at the NY Times has a major scoop: apparently, the NSA has halted „about“ email collections. This is important. As we‘ve discussed in the past, under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, the NSA can collect info on approved „foreign targets.“ But here‘s where it got sketchy: they could collect the communications „to“ them or „from“ them — which most people would expect — but also they could collect any communications „about“ them. In other words, did you joke about Osama bin Laden in an email? It‘s possible that under Section 702, the NSA could collect that email without a warrant.