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The headline and article both accurately report that 9 years worth of meta data of american citizens is to be handed over to Chevron. You don't appear to be di
by duncanawoods 13y ago
The headline and article both accurately report that 9 years worth of meta data of american citizens is to be handed over to Chevron.
You don't appear to be disputing this so what are you struggling to "reconcile" and what is so "egregious"?
- andylei 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law)
- tptacek 13y agoThe headline is deliberately written to convey the impression that Chevron is dragnetting the American population. I'm not interested in the nerdy argument we could have about whether that's true; I'm confident that it is.
- thwest 13y agoThe dragnet interpretation really seems to be your own. The headline simply says "Americans'". There are no superfluous adjectives such as "massive" or "unprecedented scale" which could be intentionally vague. Deliberately is a strong claim. Do you have some internal Mother Jones memo? Since you love to give the status quo the benefit of textual evidence, perhaps you could do the same for this article, and reiterate what you consider to be factually incorrect? You also dismissed this article because document discovery is a normal procedure. The article discusses how the discovery burden is different for citizens and non-citizens, and how the wrong burden was applied as relates to the first amendment. Do you think it is not important for courts to correctly protect your rights as a citizen through the discovery process? Why would you so pithly dismiss the article otherwise?
- tptacek 13y agoMy comment referred to the Techdirt story to which this thread was originally attached, as you might have discerned from the fact that it refers to Techdirt.