On 04/28/2017 02:30 PM, Razer wrote:
Author's "Wows" aside, there's no mention of the FBI's DIT unit's grabbing all US citizen's metadataz gleaned while rummaging for targeted 'suspects' and turning it over to the NSA, unless it's buried in the fine print somewhere (in a basement without lighting in another galaxy perhaps)
Today’s ODNI and Section 702 News By Jennifer Granick Friday, April 28, 2017 at 7:16 PM
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced that it would stop some of the surveillance it conducts on the telecommunications backbone under authority granted by section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. That announcement came in the form of a press release, a statement, and was reported in a New York Times article by reporter Charlie Savage.
Wow.
Whatever ;) It's all bullshit. It's prudent to assume that the NSA intercepts all Internet traffic. And that it stores as much as it can, for as long as it can, focusing on what seems most important. That everything is retained for at least a few days. And then it gets triaged, based on names, addresses, keywords, and so on. But metadata and encrypted stuff, the NSA reportedly retains indefinitely. <SNIP>