The NSA has been ordered to destroy phone records it collected illegally, eventually:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced that the "bulk collection" of phone data the NSA illegally collected under Section 215 of the Patriot act will be locked away starting November 29, 2015.
The data will effectively be out of reach from agency employees ad infinitum, effectively making it unusable in anti-terrorism or national security investigations. The only exception will be a three-month period, in which "technical personal" can check the data for the sole purpose of verifying records produced under the new USA Freedom Act.
The NSA is obligated to preserve most of the data until civil litigation involving the program has been resolved. Also reported at The Intercept and The Register.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:37PM
Google has thirteen data centers.
A close friend once toted a pocket nuke around in his jeep, for use in discouraging the Soviets from crossing a bridge without paying its toll. mPerhaps he could set me up.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:40PM
The reason there is no bike path from Santa Cruz to San Jose is that Lockheed uses an abandoned railroad tunnel for document storage.
Only assured destruction of the mutual kind will suffice.
Offsite backup, see.
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