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Originally Posted by cartman
Nope, not illegal at all. The metadata is actually property of the various communication companies. The FISA court approved the collection of the metadata, with the provision that it could only be accessed with subsequent FISA requests. If it were the actual contents of the communications, then it would be illegal. But the collection of the metadata is considered ok.
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Be careful with that line of reasoning when we're talking about something that is infrastructure. "Electricity is the property of the electric company so they can turn you off whenever they want" or better yet "Water is the property of the water company so they can put whatever they want in it".
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