Sick and tired of the Snowden fanbase

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219. That's an exaggeration.

The interpretation you're talking about is the Patriot Act's Section 215 -- as well as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was the basis for a secret court order demanding Verizon records that show originating and terminating phone numbers, their location, time and duration. The order does not permit the collection of the content of communications, so it's not a wiretap. If you're collecting content, then there is a privacy interest of individuals, but with these business records -- what the government is calling telephony metadata -- there is not the same expectation of privacy.