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The government's position is that collecting the data isn't surveillance until a government employee actually looks at the data. E.g. the idea is that you colle
by pyre 13y ago
The government's position is that collecting the data isn't surveillance until a government employee actually looks at the data. E.g. the idea is that you collect a huge pool of data, and then get individual warrants to go spelunking in it.
- daenz 13y ago> and then get individual warrants to go spelunking in it. And that warrant is obtained whenever, in the future, that that person opposes the national interests. Then it's like you've been spying on them all along. Retroactive wiretapping!
- rhizome 13y agoMcCarthy and Hoover's wildest dreams realized.
- pyre 13y agoDon't knock McCarthy. If it wasn't for him then China wouldn't be on the Moon!
- bayesianhorse 13y agoHow do you know China actually landed on the moon? (Just kidding...)