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No, ideally when they lose, the judicial branch will call for the closure of the PRISM program and citizen's rights will be restored.
by ParkerK 13y ago
No, ideally when they lose, the judicial branch will call for the closure of the PRISM program and citizen's rights will be restored.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoSure. But closure of PRISM and restored rights have no bearing on who pays the $3B or the fact that lawyers will see most of it (which is the case with most class actions).
- ParkerK 13y agoPRISM costs $20 billion USD per year, if I recall correctly. So that $3 billion, which is already minuscule in comparison to the federal budget, could actually be $17 billion saved.
- rayiner 13y ago$20 million, not billion.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoso a $3B judgement would be enough to run PRISM for 150 years. Well... let's say 100 years to account for inflation and adding more backdoors and secret decoder rings.