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In reply to the discussion: Is it because he's black? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)That covers a huge number of Americans especially on the coasts -- west and east.
Are we fair game?
And what about the news media?
You may be comforted by this news, but I am not. And what is more, Obama and the rest are using the term "can" erroneously I believe. Obama was talking about the legal limitations. Repeat, the legal limitations, not the physical ones. The fact is that if they order the private companies that receive and process our data to keep it, then a good hacker can go back and retrieve it.
In fact, people on DU have done something similar in a small way by somehow saving data on the internet from the past. I have no idea how it was done. So, if the internet providers are required to save the data, it can be mined by any hacker any time. The entire program is stupid because it can backfire on our government.