So, will they just make it ''lawful'' somehow?
Then, renew the objectionable act with mickey-moused legislative impunity.
If they could devise an autonomous structure for the extraction of actual communication that is terrorism (only) related, and do it with public transparency -- it might fly...
Unfortunately, with the whole process cloaked by the US PATRIOT Act's constitutionally questionable impunity I cannot see them ever agreeing to this.
There is some suspicion, possibly reason, to believe that the data gleaned is sanitized and used in pursuing security and police investigation of non-terrorist "criminal" activities.
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