Re:The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Tar...
by 2g67vupsoknn on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:13AM
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> the request was definitely not for blanket access to all users communications, which would be blatantly illegal.
Actually, this is exactly what was requested (and was eventually provided).
Re:The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Tar...
by grkvlt on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:36PM
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From your cite:
> "earlier orders intended to monitor a particular Lavabit user’s metadata."
> "the documents indicate the bureau was still trying only to capture metadata on one user."
> "while the metadata stream would be captured by a device, the device does not download, does not store, no one looks at it, [and] at the back end of the filter, we get what we’re required to get under the order."
> "So there’s no agents looking through the 400,000 other bits of information, customers, whatever, [...] No one looks at that, no one stores it, no one has access to it."
So, they were still only looking for (and recording) metadata on one user...
Should really be:
He was served with an NSL requiring him to gather the private encrypted emails of one of his users.
Rather less inflammatory, and more accurate - the NSL really only affected the person (actually, it may have been slightly more - two people?) using the service that was being targeted. The reason the service was shut down was because of the precendent; the request was definitely not for blanket access to all users communications, which would be blatantly illegal.