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In reply to the discussion: Post proof of Glen Greenwald's scandalous lies here [View all]baldguy
(36,649 posts)1) No warrants are required for non-privileged information. And per the USA PATRIOT ACT (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1861), metadata is not privileged information.
2) See #1
3) See #1
4) See #1
5) Nobody ever said the metadata belongs to nobody. Just that it doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the carrier. You don't own your phone number, you don't own your IP address, you don't own the networks the messages & data packets travel on, you don't own the exchanges & servers this information is stored on. You never have. It belongs to the private multinational corporations that invested the billions of dollars to create that infrastructure. It's been that way since AT&T was set up as a monopoly in 1913, through its breakup in 1984, up until today. It was never yours.
Now the burning question is: Will the Paulbots & Greenwald fans actually be able to comprehend & acknowledge this basic information this time?