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It's worse than that. Sometime last week I noticed that people giving testimony were using the word 'collect' in a very non-traditional way. They were using i
by michaelfeathers 13y ago
It's worse than that. Sometime last week I noticed that people giving testimony were using the word 'collect' in a very non-traditional way. They were using it to describe the process of accessing already collected (normal English usage) data.
Doubtless, lawyers were behind this gross mutation of language. Far worse than Bill Clinton's "it depends upon what the meaning of 'is' is."
- brown9-2 13y agoThey use the word "collect" in that way because surveillance laws use the word "collect" in a very specific way, and making distinctions between "collect" and "analyze" and "intercept" is important to delineate exactly what actions people are talking about: A few definitions: to "collect" means to gather and store; to "analyze" means that a computer or human actually does something with the records; to "intercept" means that a computer or human actually listens to or records calls. http://theweek.com/article/index/245228/the-fbi-collects-all-telephone-records http://theweek.com/article/index/245228/the-fbi-collects-all...