A key US government surveillance tool should face new limits, a divided privacy oversight board says
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It's illegal to "collect" this data on US persons in the first place. Like fundamentally constitutionally a problem.
The US government has paid a lawyer to say that it is not collected (even though it's sitting on their servers) because it is not in human readable format. But they can change that and grab your data at any point. You become a protester or somebody who is politically disadvantageous? Well they can reach into their history of " not collected" data that they have... problem solved! Oh, a family member was killed by a murderer? Sorry we can't look in the database of information that we have to find out who it was. That's a secret...