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The point of bulk data collection is to be able to, in effect, take a wiretap in the past before you knew what you'd need to be wiretapping in the present, by q
by neil_s_anderson 2y ago
The point of bulk data collection is to be able to, in effect, take a wiretap in the past before you knew what you'd need to be wiretapping in the present, by querying the bulk datasets for communications between specific endpoints within specific points in time.
As time travel doesn't exist, this is the next best technology available.
- ziddoap 2y agoI think we all know that. We, or I at least, don't agree with it.
- neil_s_anderson 2y agoYou don't agree with monitoring the communications of adversaries at all, or you don't agree with doing the equivalent for communications made in the recent past?
- ziddoap 2y agoI don't agree with mass collection of data of non-guilty/non-suspected citizens for "just in case" situations in the future.
- t-3 2y agoWhen the country's own citizens are the "adversaries", that's a highly fucked up government and government agency. If the people are the enemy the country is dead.
- akomtu 2y agoAnd the adversaries is the entire nation at this point.
- netsharc 2y agoAh, the East German State Police mentality... Sadly, governments end up becoming corrupt. In one formerly free nation (or at least it was one that obnoxiously bragged about being one), data about women's periods became weaponized in a witchhunt against abortions.