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In reply to the discussion: Edward Snowden is a self-regarding idealist whose warnings of tyranny ring hollow [View all]Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Collected for years, all customers should know phone call records are collected for use by communication companies, has this interfered with your daily life? NSA through perhaps contractors collects the phone call records from the communication companies through a warrant. This warrant satisfies the Fourth amendment. The personnel working for NSA and their contractors have security clearance and they also work under a Code of Ethics. The communication companies also have their employees under a similar code. Until recently these records was used by NSA analyst to profile communications with possible terrorist. Unless you are communicating with possible terrorist your records are not looked into. It is like standing on top of the George Washington Bridge and having vehicle after vehicle crossing, if the observer is watching for perhaps a speeder and notices one they do not care how many vehicles crosses the bridge nor do the care about the gallons of water which flows underneath. This is how it is with analyst, they don't have the time or interest in who is crossing or the water flowing beneath.
Do you understand what I am trying to tell you?