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Originally Posted by Rathji
Unless I am mistaken, this was done by court order. Which part of the system was bypassed in your opinion?
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The way the US government accesses the information from Google, Facebook and the rest is highly up in the air as to whether or not they obtain a court order everytime.
Obviously those companies will claim they do, but I'm not so sure.
As for the other stories, if the NSA is collecting data on every single Verizon customer, it was being done without following the proper guidelines. No sane judge would grant a blanket order that allows the government to infringe on the privacy and rights of millions of Americans without an actual reason, like terrorist ties, existing.
If the law was passed by Congress or whoever, they should be taken out back and strung up.
Boundless Informant is pretty scary as well. I know this is what the NSA does, but there is still a right to privacy, and a right for Americans to not be spied on unless there is a damn good reason for doing so.