Is it because he's black?

[Ms. Toad]

313. The FBI is the entity which obtained the warrrant.

For all the telephone metadata. Did you bother to follow the link and look at it?

It is not an accident that:
Mayfield was held under a false name
Mayfield was prohibited from communicating with his family
Mayfield was prohibited from communicating with his attorney
Mayfield was targeted because his wife was Egyptian
Mayfield was targeted because he converted to Islam

BUT - Mayfield ONLY came to the attention of the authorities because of the same kind of algorithm based data crunching that is being done with our metadata. So it is not true that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Mayfield had nothing to hide, and his innocence and his belief that he had nothing to hide did not protect him the consequences of algorithms gone bad.

And there is nothing to protect any of us if the algorithms go bad, and point the finger in our direction, and we happen to be associated with a person or organization currently out of favor with the adminstration

Data collection and crunching of that data should be based on, at a minimum, an articulable suspicion about a specific person - it should not be used (as it is now) to create that suspicion in the first place.