Indeed - the "surveillance as a business model" corporations finally got their letter of marque. It is a very nice arrangement. Google/Facebook/telcos/etc get

Indeed - the "surveillance as a business model" corporations finally got their letter of marque. It is a very nice arrangement. Google/Facebook/telcos/etc get an official justification to continue their piracy of personal data ("we are only saving what the government requires us to save"). Meanwhile, the government gets to get all the data they want without a warrant: they simply give the appropriate corporation a wink and nudge and corporation volunteers the data.