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randome

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11. Storing the metadata in a black box system is better than real-time access.

Reply to A Simple Game (Reply #10)

Thu Jun 4, 2015, 01:47 PM

Jun 2015

It makes sense to have the metadata available. If a terrorist attack occurred, don't you think it would make sense to see what other phone numbers the suspects were calling?

And if the metadata can't be accessed without a warrant, that's not a bad system. It's like storing store receipts in case of an emergency recall.

Always absent -of course- evidence of abuse. And Snowden has not shown that.
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