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Doesn't it seem odd that we're willing to spend trillions of dollars, and intercept metadata from just about every phone call in the country, to deal with a threat that, for now, kills but a few Americans annually — while we're too paralyzed to introduce a rudimentary step like universal background checks to reduce gun violence that kills tens of thousands?
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Since a 2009 upgrade, Waihopai has been capable of "full take" collection of both content and metadata intercepted by satellite, the documents showed.
It has been designed to "intercept all content and metadata of voice, SMS, email and fax communications on the connected network, creating a rich repository of information".
The document also sets out that decrypted data must be handed over within a day after a CSP has been served a warrant by a government agency, and that CSPs must maintain the capability to intercept simultaneously comms and metadata for up to 1 in 10,000 of their customers.
The draft document sets out requirements for communications services providers to maintain a capability to be in a position to hand over de-encrypted data in "near real time" when served a warrant by a government agency, and to have the capability to intercept simultaneously comms and metadata for up to 1 in 10,000 of their customers.
He instead offered to write an intercept code for the account's metadata — for thirty-five hundollarsllars.
The documents, and Levison's comments to us, suggest that although he is a skeptic, he was willing to work with the government: he offered to write intercept code himself to capture their target's metadata, and acknowledged that the government might have a right to the person's information.
According to investigative journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill – writing today in their shiny new online publication, the Intercept – the NSA locates targets for drone strikes by using metadata and tracking the coordinates of cards and mobile phones.
The source underscored the unreliability of metadata, most often from phone and computer communications intercepts.
The Intercept's most recent report throws light onto one way NSA-collected metadata is shared inside of the larger U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities — simply, widely, and often, it appears.
The documents acknowledge that using metadata from phones and computers, as well as communications intercepts, is an inferior method of finding and finishing targeted people.
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