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by darkarmani
4743 days ago
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> Even in 1790 the government could compel companies to hand over all the information they had about a target of investigation. I don't think they ever could compel companies by specifying the target as every customer on the off-chance that some where foreigners. |
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They just need to say "retain all data for XX years". Retention requirements are by no means a novel legislative requirement, you see them everywhere.
Now that PhoneCo. is holding all the data instead of the NSA, the NSA can then just ask the phone company to provide data on an as-needed basis using standard warrants/subpoenas using some variant of the Prism automated FISA/NSL-compliance system.