...This program does not involve the NSA listening to or
recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the
data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect
terrorist activity....
....I don’t see how this triggers Fourth Amendment issues.
Among other things, there’s no expectation of privacy. Our
phone records are the property of the phone companies,
which are third parties. Even if these records were
subpoenaed by the government in the course of a criminal
investigation, we have no constitutional basis to
challenge it.
Even though no privacy rights have been violated & no one is even listening in to these calls (unless & until they are tied to other known terrorist phone numbers), think about this....
....assuming that there are 200 million adult Americans,
each of whom places or receives ten phone calls a day (a
conservative estimate, I think), it would require a small
army of 35,000 full-time NSA employees to pay a total of
one second of attention to each call. In other words,
lighten up: the NSA obviously isn't tracking your phone
calls with your friends and relatives.
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