>until a human queries the database and reads from the collected interceptions. Didn't it go further than this? Just searching the data for some signal wasn't

>until a human queries the database and reads from the collected interceptions. Didn't it go further than this? Just searching the data for some signal wasn't a "search" because a machine did it, it was only a "search" if you were a match and if you were a match then they had "probable cause" for the search. Not entirely sure how accurate that is but FWIW it seemed like that was the accepted reading of the twisted reasoning on HN back when that came out.