From the article: >> "When your elected government snoops on you, they famously prefer the metadata of who you emailed, phoned or chatted to the content of the

From the article: >> "When your elected government snoops on you, they famously prefer the metadata of who you emailed, phoned or chatted to the content of the messages themselves." This is strictly false. They prefer to have the content, but it is illegal to record the content of conversations of "US Persons" without a warrant. However, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland it is legal to keep a pen register of all numbers called, since this is not considered protected under the constitution. This article was written by someone who isn't versed in the basics of what they are pontificating about.