> “In practice, these standards make it impossible for the [intelligence community], law enforcement to acquire a whole host of readily available information th

> “In practice, these standards make it impossible for the [intelligence community], law enforcement to acquire a whole host of readily available information that they currently rely on,” an administration official said. It doesn't make anything impossible to get, even if there weren't clear workarounds, all the data is as accessible as it was so long as they get a warrant rubber stamped by a judge. > “It can be impossible to know what’s in a data set before one actually obtains a data set,” the official continued. “So you’d be barred from getting that which you don’t even know.” He says this as if law enforcement going on fishing expeditions isn't a dystopian nightmare that should never be allowed in the first place.