... is requisitioning our data in the name of national security. Almost all of the digital surveillance that occurs nowadays involves metadata, the "non-content" data of one's public/private life, and much of this metadata is stored in large databases within agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA). Open talk about these sorts of reconnaissance projects has revived ... justified on its own, may become unjustified under the Fourth Amendment by the idea that the greater intrusion made possible by aggregating and analyzing the information as a larger data set, which may reveal patte...

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