Government Releases White Paper On Collection Of Metadata (READ)

This undated photo provided by Facebook shows the server room at the company's data center in Prineville, Ore. The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at ... This undated photo provided by Facebook shows the server room at the company's data center in Prineville, Ore. The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed. MORE LESS
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In conjunction with President Obama’s press conference on Friday afternoon, the government released a white paper detailing its legal rationale “for an intelligence collection program under which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains court orders directing certain telecommunications service providers to produce telephony metadata in bulk.”

Read the whole thing here: 

Administration White Paper Section 215

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