These creative redefinitions of seemingly benign terms are at the root of the problem.
- "Verizon intercepts the calls, we only collect them"
- "Verison only gives us call meta data (who called whom? when? how long?)."
- "We don't intercept the emails, Google just gives us all of the emails sitting on their servers."
... etc
"we don't - our interception devices do"
:(
Interesting. Along those lines then if you were to make a clone of someone's hard drive but you actually didn't boot or access any of the information on the hard drive I wonder what law that may or may not break? You seem to be guilty of cloning a hard drive which may not be the same as stealing anything in particular that is covered by the way a law is written.
Language matters.