• AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    They don’t bother with the legal document. Literally every phone call is tapped, and recorded. Many are transcribed. They’ve been waiting for AI to help parse it. Things are going to get a lot worse soon, unless we change course drastically.

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      8 months ago

      Way too much data to record from everyone. Target numbers supported with subpoena can be recorded by the legal agency sure. But, the operating companies don’t do it. Too expensive.

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          8 months ago

          The NSA is looking for patterns not recording everything. They do look for keywords, which might in turn justify recording.

          And I wouldn’t take Snowden’s word for anything.