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So it is more costly not to store surveillance data than to store it?

    $ vim awesometelephonesystem.conf
    
    [logging]
    logpath=/dev/null

Done. No need to redesign anything about the system itself. Data comes in, data gets thrown away.

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If you are required by law to store the data, then the lawsuits can cost you more than what you save by not buying hard drives. And yes, that is absurd.

If its required by law, then telcos need to comply, that isn't in question. If that is not what the majority wants, they need to elec governments committed to change these laws.

I am merely pointing out that, once the law permits doing so, actually not storing something is quite easy.

"If you don't like surveillance just vote for another party"

Absurd and dangerous simplification of democracy. You will not get anywhere with that kind of thinking.

"Elect government" doesn't necessarily mean "vote for the another party". Candiate c1 may support issue X, while candidate c2 does not, so I vote c1, if X is an important enough issue for me, and if I trust c1 to actually make good on the promise of B.

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