We are being manipulated to miss the point.

[brett_jv]

18. No, it has not ...

And arguably, telephone call meta-data, without any name associated with it ... is pretty easily argued as being the property of the phone company.

IMHO, instead of wasting time bashing Obama as a 'fascist, totalitarian', people who have a problem w/all this should be working to get a law passed (or to get a high court to decide a case) that clearly states that 'your' meta-data belongs to YOU, even if such data is not explicitly associated with your name.

I wish you all the best w/that, I hope you can 'win'. But my sense is ... not going to happen. W/O your name attached, those records almost certainly 'belong' to the phone company. And it's not really not even an unreasonable argument to say that it really SHOULD be considered 'theirs'.

The meta-data describing 'everyone's phone calls', *without* their names associated with the numbers, is not NECESSARILY 'your person, house, effects, or paperwork'. You can kick and scream and cry and whine and cry foul and bash Obama and tell everyone that disagrees with you that they're brainwashed ... until you're blue in the friggin' face. But you aren't going to change the LEGAL reality that of the fact that there's nothing on the books that says 'that data is YOURS (i.e. the customers)'.

And therefore ... all manner of 'entities' can easily claim that it's NOT, in fact, 'yours'.