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Originally Posted by cartman
Just what has been alleged? Unless I missed something, it was that the NSA was 'pre-staging' the metadata. Even though the data was being gathered, they still had to go to the FISA court for approval to access the data. There haven't been any formal allegations at this point that the data was accessed without FISA approval.
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Just collecting the data without FISA approval is illegal according to my understanding of the FISA amendments act (which may be incorrect).
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Originally Posted by molson
Fair enough. They maybe blend together too. One of the arguments I've heard a lot is that the NSA's activity, at least the part that we know about now, doesn't itself abuse anyone's privacy rights, because they're just logging stuff into a database, but it COULD, if it was abused, by the bad eggs.
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I agree with that argument, but I think it's a separate issue.