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Fighting Bulk Search Warrants In Court (fb.com)
55 points by ssclafani on June 26, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Boring pr that ignores the elephant in the room, NSA and other intelligence agencies undoubtably have super user access. They probably even have agents that work at Facebook to ensure they don't lose that access.


Even though we know that national intelligence agencies are coordinating with, at least, national LEAs, the smaller fights are important too. Fighting the encroachment is important at all levels, even when the starting position is bad to begin with.


I agree, but this press release misleads the public into thinking their data at Facebook is more secure and private than it really is.


For the curious, this is related to the LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) disability benefits fraud.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/lirr-fraud-scandal-...


If people hosted their own data, indtead of a centralized service, it would be harder to get everyone's data secretly.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169




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