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There are no "backdoors into Google and Apple." The government has to request specific accounts' data with a court order. The NSA isn't "vacuuming up all the m
by lern_too_spel 4y ago
There are no "backdoors into Google and Apple." The government has to request specific accounts' data with a court order.
The NSA isn't "vacuuming up all the metadata and a good fraction of the content from the main nodes." It does full take in some countries with national security interest and collects data to or from some endpoints outside the US known to belong to foreigners with a court order.
We know all of this from the documents Snowden leaked and the documents the government declassified.
- VistaBrokeMyPC 4y agoThat "court order" is from the FISA court, which may as well be a monkey with a rubber stamp. We learned that from the Snowden documents too.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoThey only call it a court for marketing reasons. It's basically just an internal review process.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoNo, we learned that they were approved at roughly the same rate as other search court orders. Investigators aren't going to spend the time making an application for a court order unless it has a very high chance of being granted. https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-law-enforcement-search-warrants-are-issued/answer/Al-Saibini?ch=15&oid=72038762&share=eb62cad6&srid=B0HV&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-law-enforcement-search...