Re:After Senate vote, NSA prepares to shut down phone tracki...
by mike_hearn on Monday May 25, 2015 @01:08PM
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Yes. As just one example more and more calls of importance have moved to VoIP and/or become video calls. I rate the chances of the NSA deciding that these are not "phone calls" for the purposes of the expiry at 100% likely.
That's assuming they can't simply stop collecting call metadata, but then keep collecting tower signalling metadata or something like that, thus allowing them to tell themselves that's not what Congress cared about ..... and then extract call metadata on demand from it.
It's obvious that the NSA cannot be controlled by anything at this point. The DoJ would need to jail Clapper to get their attention and that won't happen short of some ridiculous sex-related personal scandal.
That's assuming they can't simply stop collecting call metadata, but then keep collecting tower signalling metadata or something like that, thus allowing them to tell themselves that's not what Congress cared about ..... and then extract call metadata on demand from it.
It's obvious that the NSA cannot be controlled by anything at this point. The DoJ would need to jail Clapper to get their attention and that won't happen short of some ridiculous sex-related personal scandal.