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skwirl on June 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Antiprism

I don't follow. "Information is being stored in advance of it being 'collected'" - what exactly do you mean? Your GMail e-mail is stored with Google. The government can only get it with a FISA request targeted at you or someone yo e-mailed (via a request aimed at their account).

michaelfeathers on June 21, 2013 [–]

Fibre optic splitter: https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager...

And there's this story, also on the front page of HN now: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/20/the-nsa-can-retain-...

skwirl on June 21, 2013 | [–]

This was exposed in 2006. As PRISM claims are walked back, it seems the recently renewed outrage is being pushed to other old stories.

tlrobinson on June 21, 2013 | | [–]

That's fine. There wasn't enough outrage the first time around.

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