TheGreatGatsby
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Today the Guardian revealed that:
The Guardian said:However, alongside those provisions, the Fisa court-approved policies allow the NSA to:
Keep data that could potentially contain details of US persons for up to five years;
Retain and make use of "inadvertently acquired" domestic communications if they contain usable intelligence, information on criminal activity, threat of harm to people or property, are encrypted, or are believed to contain any information relevant to cybersecurity;
Preserve "foreign intelligence information" contained within attorney-client communications;
I think that the second item answers the questions I raised a bit earlier.
The term, 'encyrpted' is what makes that ruling a total farce. Virtually all electronic communication is encrypted.