I broadly agree with you in principle, but in this specific case i think the issue of the law is the subtlety of the definition. The thing that the AG was studi

I broadly agree with you in principle, but in this specific case i think the issue of the law is the subtlety of the definition. The thing that the AG was studiously avoiding to answer was that both he and the people that drafted the law understood that metadata is data. He was trying to obfuscate the fact that the government was massively shifting the imaginary line between them.