Re:Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional...
by ihsw on Monday July 15, 2013 @03:06PM
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The problem is with qualifying violations. Current interpretations of 'spying' specify that violations don't occur until a human being queries the database, so technically 4th Amendment violations aren't occurring by the data being automatically stored and indexed by the NSA's vast data collection efforts.
There will also be fights about how 'public' data is, and there will be arguments about how anything shared on Facebook falls under the definition of 'public data.'
There will also be fights about how 'public' data is, and there will be arguments about how anything shared on Facebook falls under the definition of 'public data.'