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x86x87 on Dec 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Governments spying on Apple, Google users through ...

Why bother with this whole process when you can get everything + store & index it yourself?

Who knows? Maybe you want to retroactively look at shit peopke received and decide on new crimes.

xyst on Dec 6, 2023 [–]

They already do this, I think;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

But since PRISM was exposed ~10 years ago, they have had to resort to using FISA court to scrape data

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