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The difference is that, the government has to ask for the data, they can't just casually sift through the universe. (I'm assuming that FISA courts, at the very

• confounded 9y ago
  > "all of your data on everyone forever" As far as we know (which is as little as possible), they can get all the data on you as an individual, if you’re on a data retention list. This is outside of data you generate happening to hit certain search terms I qualify for such a list; I was/am a subscriber to The Linux Journal, an ‘extremeist publication’ according to the NSA, at least at the time of the Snowden leaks. Am I still? It’s illegal for me to know. But it’s reasonable to assume that the maximalist approach to data collection is shared by the government and Google et al quite happily.