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The Pentagon has deemed the AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk.
Anthropic has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, challenging its designation as a supply chain risk.
Anthropic's lawsuit alleges that the U.S. government is violating its First and Fifth Amendment rights and seeking to destroy the company's economic value.
The National Security Agency (NSA) has internally reinterpreted the word "target" to allow for the collection of communications from a U.S. person if they mention or are about a foreign person.
Executive Order 12333 enables the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect communications between U.S. persons by tapping fiber optic cables outside of the U.S. that the data transits through.
The legal concept of the third-party doctrine has effectively nullified much of the Fourth Amendment's protections in the digital age, as most personal data is now held by third-party companies.
Anthropic's primary objection in its dispute with the Pentagon was a clause that would allow its AI model, Claude, to be used on data collected from commercial services and third-party data brokers.
The Trump administration escalated its dispute with Anthropic by using a supply chain risk designation, a tool intended for foreign adversaries, against a U.S. company for its ethics policy.
The Trump administration is perceived as threatening to destroy Anthropic's business if the company does not build tools that comply with the administration's demands.
In a 2012 hearing, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper stated that the U.S. government did not collect data on Americans.
James Clapper's 2012 denial of U.S. data collection on Americans was a significant factor that inspired Edward Snowden to leak classified documents.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court has historically approved over 99% of surveillance applications, leading to a reputation as a "rubber stamp."