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Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by shadowgovt on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:32PM (#34839233)
I'm not even sure we can extrapolate that the NSA is storing anything like every text message long-term (as opposed to metadata, or samples, or the full transcripts of individuals targeted for investigation, or a machine learning trained weights set to flag messages that indicate someone should go on the targeted-for-investigation list).

6 billion text messages are sent per day in the US. That's about the volume of Google web searches, and I know from experience Google doesn't have the capacity to log every search or the logs of evaluation of every search. If Google lacks the capacity, I suspect the NSA lacks the capacity.

Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by GauntletWizard on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:34PM (#34840873)
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