"Reforms" to NSA spying

[Mike Gogulski]

Progress, esteemed comrades!

No longer shall our Noospheric Synchronophonic Abracadabra dwell unduly
upon us without proper paperwork!

Rejoice! Again, I say, rejoice!

On 11/03/2013 05:34 AM, Jim Bell wrote:
> A few days ago I read of 'reforms' being proposed to NSA spying on
> phone and internet metadata, along the lines of requiring the
> government to obtain some sort of warrant to get data from the phone
> companies, etc.  Progress?  I doubt it.  Looks to me like the
> government knows it's going to lose control of the data, and probably
> there are no requirements that such phone co's keep 'all' the data.  I
> predict that any proposed new bill will contain requirements that the
> phone co's record 'all' of the data the government might want, and
> keep it for an extended period of time.  The government knows that if
> no such requirement is put into law, phone co's will compete for
> customers by offering ever-more-complete privacy.   Soon enough, no
> phone company will store metadata, or they will store it in such a way
> that it will be useless for government purposes.
>        Jim Bell
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/big-us-tech-firms-calls-reform-snooping-161145013.htm
> <http:///>


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