"As for the data mining, Jim Harper of the free-market Cato Institute says it violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches. Orin Kerr, a former Justice Department prosecutor who takes a more permissive view of police power, says his tentative conclusion is that it does not run afoul of the Fourth Amendment but the phone companies likely violated the Stored Communications Act."
BS on both counts.
Not even close.
CNET is purposefully posting disinformation.
TIA (aka Topsail) unveiled: the real scope of the NSA's domestic spying program (Alarmist piece )
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