ACLU sues US government over metadata surveillance program

[OutHouse]

This went on with letters to and from soldiers during WW2 as well. I'm not excusing it, just pointing out that it's been done for a long time.

100% correct, however there are differences.

1. Everybody knew it
2. the letters were read and the conversations were monitored, they were not recorded and passed around like a party favor.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I hope they win, but I'm not confident anything will change.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Anyone who thinks the government is only collecting metadata is being ridiculous. The current amount of data on the internet per year (literally the size of the internet) is on the order of hundreds of exabytes (10^20 bytes). The facility the NSA is building in utah is on the order of yottabytes (10^24 bytes). You don't build a facility large enough to store years of the internet just to record who made a few phone calls.

I am curious where the DR site for that DC is. :'(

 

[Patranus]

So the ACLU is suing the government because people freely gave corporations this data?
LMFAO.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

So the ACLU is suing the government because people freely gave corporations this data?
LMFAO.

People did not however give anything freely to corporations, and corporations giving "freely" to the government? Sure, like they had had much of a choice.

 

[Darwin333]

So the ACLU is suing the government because people freely gave corporations this data?
LMFAO.

Would that be like "freely" giving the post office my mail so its perfectly ok for the .gov to open and read it? How about Fed Ex? I freely give them a package to mail for me so its ok for the .gov, not the corporation, to open it?

 

[Doppel]

Exactly the Government has to collect this data, because it is destroyed by the companies.

Funny how so many think they know more than all of the legal experts and judges who said this was legal and constitutional. Let us not for get Barack Obama is an expert on constitutional law.

Haha newb u are level 1: