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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by lern_too_spel on Monday July 18, 2022 @08:55PM (#32146107)
There are no "backdoors into Google and Apple." The government has to request specific accounts' data with a court order.

The NSA isn't "vacuuming up all the metadata and a good fraction of the content from the main nodes." It does full take in some countries with national security interest and collects data to or from some endpoints outside the US known to belong to foreigners with a court order.

We know all of this from the documents Snowden leaked and the documents the government declassified.

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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by VistaBrokeMyPC on Monday July 18, 2022 @11:06PM (#32147079)
That "court order" is from the FISA court, which may as well be a monkey with a rubber stamp. We learned that from the Snowden documents too.
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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by lern_too_spel on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:09PM (#32160515)
No, we learned that they were approved at roughly the same rate as other search court orders. Investigators aren't going to spend the time making an application for a court order unless it has a very high chance of being granted.

https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-law-enforcement-search...

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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @06:34AM (#32149699)
They only call it a court for marketing reasons. It's basically just an internal review process.
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