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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the for-very-large-values-of-unreasonable dept.

When the United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson was asked, "do you believe the government has the right to bulk collection of records from millions of individuals without a warrant", his response was that the question was "beyond my competence as secretary of homeland security" to answer.

The original article touches on some important details and raises key criticisms of the slipshod method currently used to obtain communications records for millions of people from US phone companies in violation of the spirit, if not letter, of the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable government searches and seizures.

Source video for quotes and context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_auHdE89qQ

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @07:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @07:01PM (#180027)

    No, because what they're collecting is normal people's information. If they want Verizon's information, then they have to get a warrant for that.