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

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177. What a charming person you are

Illegal Aliens cannot have their civil liberties violated - I suggest you post that at some more right wing site, you'll fit right in.

Google is not violating civil rights by showing faces? What if they are (accidentally) photographing the interior of houses?

What of bus companies not letting African Americans sit wherever they wished on the bus?

Getting a warrant to listen away is getting a blanket warrant. Warrants require probable cause which has to be shown by knowing that the possible offender dialed certain numbers overseas. Any more bright ideas?

It is publication because it puts into the public sphere a number to which you want to connect. Once you are connected then the contents of the call are private. By default you are asking your phone company to utilise whatever networks they need to connect you and this requires them to make the phone number you are calling, as well as your own phone number, available to those other networks. You will deny this is publication because you live in your own private universe.

Metadata on an e-mail is published for the same reason, you cannot have secret metadata otherwise the internet does not work.

The "feds" obtain a warrant not to look at metadata but to look at the content; which is protected, private communication. To do this they show probable cause in that the e-mail or phone call is addressed to persons who may wish to harm the USA. It does seem that FISC is pretty much a rubber stamp court but that is a separate issue from the collection of metadata.

As to spelling, Merriam Webster may be the be all and end all of education as far as you are concerned but I prefer British useage. There is a reason for this.