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NSA deletes hundreds of millions of call records over privacy violations
The NSA unfortunately has a long history of violating privacy rules, although this time the agency might not be entirely to blame. The NSA is deleting hundreds of millions of call and text message data records (collected since 2015) after learning of "technical irregularities" that led to receiving records it wasn't supposed to obtain under the USA Freedom Act. General counsel Glenn Gerstell told the New York Times in an interview that "one or more" unnamed telecoms had responded to data requests for targets by sending logs that included not just the relevant data, but records for people who hadn't been in contact with the targets. As it was "infeasible" to comb through all the data and find just the authorized data, the NSA decided to wipe everything.
[...] The companies involved have "addressed" the cause of the problem for data going forward, the NSA said.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:07PM
They do deserve prison. That they have not been put there for such obvious and open crimes speaks volumes about the state of the Rule of Law in the USA in 2018. It tells you all you need to know about how legitimate our democracy is. That is to say, it is all a charade.
The NSA must be dissolved and its members thrown into the deepest, darkest holes in Guantanamo. The execs at AT&T and other telecoms who collaborate with the NSA must be thrown into supermax prisons. The members of the government from George W. Bush and afterward who condone and cover up for this must also be thrown in prison.
I remember when I was interviewing with the CIA 25 years ago they posed the "Security vs. Freedom" dilemma as a question. I argued that a government that abandons freedom for security will make itself the enemy in the place of the one it purports to fight. They really should have taken note of that, because it's exactly what has happened.
Washington DC delenda est.