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by grkvlt 3898 days ago
From your cite:

> "earlier orders intended to monitor a particular Lavabit user’s metadata."

> "the documents indicate the bureau was still trying only to capture metadata on one user."

> "while the metadata stream would be captured by a device, the device does not download, does not store, no one looks at it, [and] at the back end of the filter, we get what we’re required to get under the order."

> "So there’s no agents looking through the 400,000 other bits of information, customers, whatever, [...] No one looks at that, no one stores it, no one has access to it."

So, they were still only looking for (and recording) metadata on one user...