Glenn Greenwald: NSA Can Store A BILLION CELL PHONE CALLS Every Day

[pipoman]

175. well..

A direct lie as those using illegal aliens for slave labour are also breaching civil rights/liberties. As Google has found when its Streetview showed unblurred faces.

No " using illegal aliens for slave labour(sic)" isn't a civil rights violation in any but the most 'johnny come lately' use of language, civil right and liberties refer to violations of the Constitution/Bill of Rights. The Constitution/Bill of Rights are limitations on government, not the people. It is a violation of criminal statute and/or an "act of Congress"..an act, like the civil rights act for instance..if an employer doesn't wish to hire a Buddhist because he's a Buddhist (insert any race, creed, color...etc.) that person would be charged for violation of an act of congress not a first amendment violation. If a cop kicks a Buddhists ass because he is a Buddhist it would be a 1st amendment violation and probably a few others.

So any transactions with with overseas entities that may want to harm your country cannot be examined?

Sure, just get a warrant and listen away..by all means, be pretty liberal in the issuance of warrants..but guess what? Why do you suppose we need a FISA court? Imagine how much cheaper it would be to just place a few extra judges on the federal bench to handle the volume? Could it be because there isn't a federal judge on the bench who would sign a warrant to encompass every person who owns a cell phone..that is a bit too liberal for any judge I expect..so we need a new court to issue these because the existing federal court is bound by SCOTUS precedent..criteria for warrants has a volume of case law behind it, this new court doesn't need to be burdened by all that..oh, and how about we operate this court secretly..we don't need the pesky public finding out we are issuing warrants with no recourse.

There is privacy but not of published information. Dialing a phone number or addressing a letter or addressing an e-mail automatically publishes that information.

It publishes it, does it? Where prytell does it publish it? Where do I go to see this information made public (definition of publish)? Utter nonsense..why, if this information is published, would the .gov need a warrant to get it?

That is a lie where you are depending upon us not seeing that published information is different from private. If a doctor gives you a prescription for morphine, then presenting that prescription will trigger an enquiry by the pharmacist as to your medical condition and will also probably trigger an enquiry from the FDA.

no, the lie is that the information is "published"...tell me again why if it is published the feds need a warrant from a (relatively) new secret court?

You persist in conflating published information (your number plate, your phone number, your e-mail address, your addressees, the people you call) with private (your financial data) and with data that you have chosen to reveal (your location).

see the above 2 answers.

Apart from the fact this is word salad (yes that is an ad hom - but a justified one) you continue to display ignorance about the difference between published and private information. Published information can provide evidence for a justified search and seizure, exactly as telephoning Kim Il Jong would provide reason to record and examine your phone call.

Since you admitted you don't understand in the first sentence, the rest might be...word..salad?

pipoman please think about what you write and use paragraphs as it aids comprehension of what you are trying to say.

LOL..perhaps a dictionary when you write, eh?