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I wonder how this works as far as "the government cannot circumvent application of the warrant requirement simply because queried information is already collect
by duxup 2y ago
I wonder how this works as far as "the government cannot circumvent application of the warrant requirement simply because queried information is already collected and held by the government," goes.
I had some visibility (it wasn't secret or anything) to a telecommunications provider who simply had data duplicated without a filter from what seemed to be production communication straight to storage devices. It was a big operation. What happened with that data I do not know.
So on the surface it's a private company spending crazy amounts of money to simply copy mass amounts of data, voice, 3g, 4g etc ... Now maybe the government told them to do it, or even paid (the costs were pretty crazy), but it was on the surface a private company.
Would that apply here? It would seem not as the ruling cites data the government already collected for other reasons.
- ethbr1 2y agoThe limitation of electronic surveillance of US citizens by US government organizations, as far as I understand it, is that 'it requires a warrant.' The method of data collection, and whether the data pre-exists or is collected post-warrant is semi-immaterial. Like quantum mechanics, the warrant-triggering action is looking at any such data. Which seems fair. I'd prefer data not be stored in the first place, but I grant there are legitimate law enforcement and national security reasons to do so. If it has to / will be collected, then at least we can build an ironclad and clear legal requirement that any and all users can't look at it without first going through the court system.