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Sigh, more about phone records. Phone records! Just metadata collection! Data collection? Oh, right, we do that, too.
by mrobot 13y ago
Sigh, more about phone records.
Phone records! Just metadata collection! Data collection? Oh, right, we do that, too.
- bobbles 13y agoIt's really disturbing how 'it's just metadata' is one of the lines being used to make the whole NSA debacle sound like not such a big deal, when in reality metadata is what makes this information USEFUL.
- dmazin 13y agoShit, somewhere in there is a point.
- mrobot 13y agoMy point was that phone records is often used as a distraction from the rest of the programs, "see look, it's just the outside of a letter!". In reality, two things are wrong: a lot of letters' insides are analyzed as well, and keeping a central database of just the outsides turns out to be a huge privacy violation, anyway.