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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by externalreality on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:56PM (#13632275)
Bogus defense IMHO. Acquiring the ability to query a database is enough to constitute surveillance. I wonder if my land lord could use the same logic to legally record me in the shower.

We have to understand that, much like it's a military's responsibility (and desire) to go to war, it is the goal of spy agencies to gather all the intelligence it possible can. In both cases it is up to law making bodies comprised of "the people" to check these agencies' ambitions.

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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by bigiain on Sunday February 12, 2017 @08:09PM (#13632336)
I completely agree with you. It baffles me that anybody can stand up in front of their peers and claim "bulk collection" doesn't violate your privacy until/unless some human ever reads the data you've collected, and it's beyond parody that a judge in a court agreed with this example of mental gymnastics...
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