This is a smoke screen. Call record searches is unsettling but not the main issue to me. How about grabbing content on millions of users in VZ based on a single court order. At least that is what I read. I want to understand how many FISA intercepts are triggered by one judge signing off.
it is not just verizon. Read the details, AT&T and sprint as well as several other wireless providers are on the list being trawled. They are not just collecting metadata, they are trawling telcos because they don’t circuit switch (haven’t for a long time). Everybody uses packet switching right now, so there is no differentiation between data, voice, video, audio, email, anything. That’s why it’s called trawling, they access the whole pipe and supposedly only keep what they want, but they have everything that comes through that pipe (what they want and anything else that happens to be in the pipe as well - could be your data).