Progress, esteemed comrades! No longer shall our Noospheric Synchronophonic Abracadabra dwell unduly upon us without proper paperwork!
Rejoice! Again, I say, rejoice! On 11/03/2013 05:34 AM, Jim Bell wrote: > A few days ago I read of 'reforms' being proposed to NSA spying on > phone and internet metadata, along the lines of requiring the > government to obtain some sort of warrant to get data from the phone > companies, etc. Progress? I doubt it. Looks to me like the > government knows it's going to lose control of the data, and probably > there are no requirements that such phone co's keep 'all' the data. I > predict that any proposed new bill will contain requirements that the > phone co's record 'all' of the data the government might want, and > keep it for an extended period of time. The government knows that if > no such requirement is put into law, phone co's will compete for > customers by offering ever-more-complete privacy. Soon enough, no > phone company will store metadata, or they will store it in such a way > that it will be useless for government purposes. > Jim Bell > > http://news.yahoo.com/big-us-tech-firms-calls-reform-snooping-161145013.htm > <http:///>
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