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Posted on June 7, 2013December 4, 2017 in Quotations, Reflections

Privacy advocates have long warned that allowing the government to collect and store unlimited “metadata” is a highly invasive form of surveillance of citizens’ communications activities. Those records enable the government to know the identity of every person with whom an individual communicates electronically, how long they spoke, and their location at the time of the communication. Such metadata is what the US government has long attempted to obtain in order to discover an individual’s network of associations and communication patterns. The request for the bulk collection of all Verizon domestic telephone records indicates that the agency is continuing some version of the data-mining program begun by the Bush administration in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack.

  • Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)

Anyone trying to convince people “it’s only metadata” should be discounted as a fool or a government shill. Or perhaps as being both.

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