[Aelinsaar]

Ridiculous times too, when all of this gathering of data is predicated on a flawed assumption that it won't just be creating more noise in the attempts to predict terrorism. We've switched from one wasteful, illegal, and noisy method (kidnapping and torture) to invading privacy.

I'd love to see efficacy proven, just once.

[linkregister]

Isn't an NSL by definition a non-noisy, targeted method? I'm going off of the widely known methodology for getting data from a U.S. company, FAA 702, popularly known as "PRISM".

Do you have any links describing NSLs being part of a noisy, dragnet operation?

[Aelinsaar]

No, I'm working under the assumption that the NSL was a first step in mass collection.