[Beagle8U]

"instead, the government is looking at the data to determine probable cause, if they are data mining. If they are not data mining, then an expedited subpeona process would get them any specifica calling data they might need."

Just exactly how do you prevent crime before it happens, without "data mining" ??

[dirtboy]

Just exactly how do you prevent crime before it happens, without "data mining" ??

I dunno - by going through the data the government already has, like they did prior to 9-11, and figure out ways to better use that? The solution to being unable to process the data you already have is not to get petabytes of more data.

I am no opposed to the government obtaining data. But there needs to be some kind of cause involved. And the Verizon data fails that test.