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ProSense

(116,464 posts) Sat Jun 8, 2013, 04:26 PM Jun 2013

The collection of metadata makes me miss illegal wiretapping

Evidently, the collection of such data is "more intrusive than content.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022971660

For the Republican opportunists, Bush actually spied on people.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022959557

HELLO WORLD! George W. Bush illegally spied on American citizens. Read all about it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022963663

Obama: PRISM Doesn’t Apply To U.S. Citizens
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022965452

There is no Obama policy of spying on everyone and no domestic spying
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022971026

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The collection of metadata makes me miss illegal wiretapping (Original Post) ProSense Jun 2013 OP

What a quaint term... "metadata" Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #1

I can answer that DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2013 #2

! Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #3

Yep. The NSA instituted a Top Secret program just to mine harmless data. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2013 #4

No, the data is "more intrusive than content.” ProSense Jun 2013 #5

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

1. What a quaint term... "metadata"

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Sat Jun 8, 2013, 04:31 PM

Jun 2013

Do you know what "metadata" actually is?

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)

2. I can answer that

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 8, 2013, 04:35 PM

Jun 2013

Metadata is a Latin term meaning "really unimportant data, so stop saying that".

I'm not sure who these people are who think they have some shot at making a damn-near-treasonous program into something I'll accept, but I have reason to believe they have no real idea how principled people respond to an outrage like this.