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Hasn't the government been collecting telecommunications metadata since at least the origin of the phone?



No. Is this a defense of the NSA’s illegal dragnet surveillance of American communications?

That data center isn’t there because they ran out of space for CDRs.


I'm not defending anything that is currently happening. I'm asking what privacy in the past do you think existed?




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