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> You have my telephone number connecting with your telephone number. There are no names. There is no content in that database...At no point is any content revealed because there’s no content that...the FBI — if, in fact, it now wants to get content; if, in fact, it wants to start tapping that phone
Snowden (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...):
> If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything.
Notice how Obama only talks about the phone metadata DB, and a process for getting data from companies about "non-US persons" (Google, etc) based on "essentially a warrant" (not the same thing as a warrant, though). Snowden's allegations are starting to become much wider than the original Verizon DB and PRISM systems. And I don't think that we are going to see Obama address them and deny them directly any time soon.
Sounds like they have zeroed in on the audit trail of what Snowden was able to access and/or what he has already given to Greenwald or the Washington Post. Some pre-damage control going on here.
> disclosing details about such surveillance would cause "our country to lose some sort of protection."
The people who they would be surveilling really wouldn't have suspected this capability already?
> the company hints that hashtags “are just the first step” in a series of features that will bring conversations about public events, people, and topics on the social network to “the forefront of people’s Facebook experience.
So in other words, FB is making it clear that they are going to continue to try to play catch-up to Twitter and G+?