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No, it won't. It also won't change anything for US nationals who deliberately move their communications to platforms "hosted in Switzerland", which has always been a funny privacy move, because the US IC has blanket de jure authority to surveil foreign services; it's only the US providers that have these procedural protections.

The statute we're talking about here, 702, is what enables the IC to compel American communications providers to cough up data (about ostensibly foreign targets).



> it's only the US providers that have these procedural protections.

Even that is no guarantee as your packets can be routed into Canada and back if they need to be made foreign.


702 generally targets stored communications.




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