This is where we’re at. The responsibility for fighting surveillance abuse falls to tech companies, because nobody even pretends that the Federal government and courts are functional moral actors. 
I have to assume that right now Apple and other tech companies are developing procedures to identify subpoenas that are aimed at Congress, on the assumption that the DoJ can’t be trusted to tell them.
“Well, we only handed over metadata, not content.”
You handed over a list that could contain every phone number House Intelligence Committee members ever spoke to or texted with, and you think that makes it ok?
You handed over a list that could contain every phone number House Intelligence Committee members ever spoke to or texted with, and you think that makes it ok?
Anyway I just want to say: I’m mad at Apple over this. But I’m also mad at the fact that I have to be mad at Apple.
The people who brought us U2: Songs of Innocence shouldn’t be the only thing standing between us and unfettered surveillance.
The people who brought us U2: Songs of Innocence shouldn’t be the only thing standing between us and unfettered surveillance.
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