| Grand Magus |
The first is shifting the holding of phone call metadata from the NSA to
the phone companies, allowing the NSA to still search through it after
getting a court order. While this may be a marginal improvement, it still
has tremendous problems. It will almost certainly come with some sort of
data retention law -- something that the feds have wanted for ages, and
which civil liberties activists have been fighting against for years.
| Comrade Anklebiter |
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No, but the FBI wanted the anti-war movement activists to think that.
"It Was Time to Do More Than Protest": Activists Admit to 1971 FBI Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO