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Originally Posted by scipio
Give up people you will not convince him.
He keeps quoting the same laws that he doesn't understand, that essentially say it is legal for the equipment to be there (although it doesn't say it is legal for this information to be collected BY THE NSA without probably cause).
DAmn didn't I just say to give up? I'm incorrigible.
BTW Felicia shame on you for quoting such pinko commie liberals.... j/k
Scipio, you are right about not convincing him, since he keeps quoting a case from 1979, and ignoring the law passed in 1988, known as the Stored Communication Act, as found in UNITED STATES CODE ANNOTATED TITLE 18. CHAPTER 121 which established a right to privacy for the very type of records now being plundered by the NSA, illegally. There are only five exceptions that would permit a phone company to disclose to the government the list of calls to or from a subscriber:
(i) a warrant;
(ii) a court order;
(iii) the customer’s consent;
(iv) for telemarketing enforcement; or
(v) by “administrative subpoena.”
The first four clearly don’t apply and the NSA has no administrative subpoena authority.
The Telco's who gave up the records without regard to the law face a fine of up 1000.00 for each person's records they failed to safeguard. Thats billions of dollars in potential liability exposure. Class action lawsuits have already been filed. The Congress may be toothless and gutless, but the trial lawyers are like pitbulls and the the Administration and the telco's may be in for a mauling.
FK