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I'm curious what the breakdown in nonmonopolistic cost of this would be. I assume the largest component is the cost of surveillance to make sure they aren't tak
by afarrell 10y ago
I'm curious what the breakdown in nonmonopolistic cost of this would be. I assume the largest component is the cost of surveillance to make sure they aren't taking out a hit on someone?
- r_smart 10y agoI doubt it. We're already all paying for that to be conducted on everyone in the country.
- afarrell 10y agoBy a totally different entity who is going to avoid submitting its data into court records.
- r_smart 10y agoIsn't the FBI also conducting similar kinds of surveillance activities as the NSA, though not as broad in scope?
- afarrell 10y agoHere is an introduction to the 4th amendment law surrounding wiretapping, drawn by a New York defense attorney: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1704 http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1704 Note that it assumes that an investigation is being conducted for the purpose of submitting evidence to a court.
- r_smart 10y agoSorry, I seem to have misunderstood a crucial part of what you were saying, which is: using the data as evidence in court. I also dug around to see if the FBI has any surveillance apparatus like what the NSA is doing and didn't come up with anything credible in the few minutes I looked. They appear capable, but, as of yet, have not started that anyone knows of.
- jessaustin 10y agoDon't assume there's anything reasonable about a monopolistic price.
- ryanlol 10y agoI'm pretty sure that in most cases calls are only recorded and not actively listened to unless there's an investigation. Enabling recording shouldn't take more than flipping a switch on a sip server and storage costs will be less than $1000 per decade.