Again, the cash payments are a deception. They are in no way enough to compensate these companies. Operational expenses associated with processing data requests are a small part of the overall cost.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <j...@cdt.org> wrote: > > > On 9/10/13 4:51 PM, Kyle Maxwell wrote: > > In general, as has been well documented, the telcos and other firms > > charge the government for data records. While possibly distasteful > > ("they're making money off of giving our data to the gov!"), it makes > > sense from an operational point of view: there are real, concrete > > costs associated with storing, retrieving, and providing those data to > > "valid" requests, not to mention the process of handling sensitive > > requests in the first place. So I'm not sure the counter approach > > ("provide it to us for free") is a good idea, either. > > Yes, some of the reporting in the last weeks about the NSA's black > budget teased out these compensation relationships a bit, e.g.: > > NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks > > http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-29/world/41712151_1_nsa-national-security-agency-companies > > -- > Joseph Lorenzo Hall > Senior Staff Technologist > Center for Democracy & Technology > 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 > Washington DC 20006-4011 > (p) 202-407-8825 > (f) 202-637-0968 > j...@cdt.org > PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key > fingerprint: BE7E A889 7742 8773 301B 4FA1 C0E2 6D90 F257 77F8 > > > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. >
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