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user-inactivated  ·  3987 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obama to "Call for End" to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection

Difference, if I'm reading the article correctly, is that the information specified above would have to be obtained on a case-by-case basis via court order, which is several orders of magnitude better than the current system of just taking everybody's phone metadata without specific court authorization and holding it all indefinitely.