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> 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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