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Posted on 08/01/2015 9:07:27 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement concerning the retention of metadata collected in accordance with section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
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approved the Government’s application to resume the Section 215 bulk telephone metadata program pursuant to the USA FREEDOM Act’s 180-day transition provision. As part of our effort to transition to the new authority, we have evaluated whether NSA should maintain access to the historical metadata after the conclusion of that 180-day period.”
Sounds good on the surface but the NSA will maintain the communication until November 29, 2015. The Intelligence Analysts will have access to that data which go back five years. Beltway translation: Democrats own this mess and want to get rid of records before Obama leaves office. However, as authorized by the USA FREEDOM Act, technical personnel will have access to the historical metadata for an additional three months. The records will be removed from NSA’s data banks sometime in January 2016.
After November 29th the NSA will require phone companies to maintain metadata and make it readily available upon request by government officials. In short, the purge of records from federal computers will not end the program but rather move the record keeping from the government to private companies, the same companies which sell phones manufactured by Foxconn.
Notice to privacy advocates–this is not a victory. Just lipstick on a pig. It is not the reform that privacy advocates had hoped for. Not only will the NSA have unlimited access to phone records collected during the last five years, the government has transformed phone companies into a warehouse for...
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So if they are going to have phone companies store the data, and the courts have made rulings that seem to say that our data in other people’s hands is not “ours” to be protected by our 4th and 5th amendment rights, and not “theirs” do defend their rights, so no warrant is needed, just a request...
How does this make us more secure in our privacy?
Why? After all, it wasn’t wrong. No heads rolled? Nobody lost their jobs over it. There was no recognized criminal activity?
So why destroy those records?
What a bunch of ass-covering liars.
What a maggot infesting area, Washington, D. D.
Hocus pocus! They just make the telco store the data and give NSA access.
Yeah. Right.....
Thank you.
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Yes, and Hillary returned all the campaign money from questionable sources.
Sure thing some time in the future maybe....
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