> ... access to this data is so accessible remotely that physically visiting an internet provider’s premises is no longer required for government agencies.
They were expecting government agents to have to physically visit the ISP's offices? Were they perhaps going to get their data on a floppy disk?
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/foriegn-intelligence-s...
Airgapped systems are also still a thing.
On-site access would also make it harder to abuse the data at scale.
I’m not surprised that the data is accessed remotely. But I can also understand scenarios where it makes sense to require physical access, and not because of long gone floppy disk drives or other ancient hardware.
One of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A