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They can now declare how many National Security Letters and FISA requests they get in increments of 250.

That's absolutely ridiculous. It's no better than not stating at all. They also still can't state if the request is relating to terrorism, or industrial espionage under the guise of alleged crimes. For now foreign companies have to assume the worst.

It's pretty depressing knowing that the United States has one of the best, and most clear constitutions ever written. You can't misinterpret the First Amendment, and yet it's now completely void.




> It's no better than not stating at all.

I mean, it's at least slightly better, right?


Not if the cost of paying attention to the new rules has opportunity cost in excess of the value of the improvement. We have to pick our battles.


Of course it is, as it allows us to at least determine if "mass" surveillance is going on, as opposed to the "good old-fashioned police work" that everyone here claims to want.


No, actually. We only know the number of documents, not the number of users affected. The numbers we get to see are nearly meaningless.




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