What's the point?

Posted Jun 22, 2014 13:44 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: What's the point? by mathstuf
Parent article: Android without the mothership

In the US case, we have the FISC, whose job it is to provide judicial oversight of the government's data collection programmes. That makes the access justifiable (from the government's POV, anyway).

Of course, whether a secret court that rubberstamps virtually every request it receives, no matter how sweeping, is actually worth being considered »judicial oversight« by people not affiliated with the government is another matter entirely …