Nonetheless, now that the US government has acknowledged that the PRISM data collection program actually exists, there are other implications that are rearing their head:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... 4900.story
A suspect on trial for a 2010 bank robbery claims to have been somewhere else at the time of the robbery, and that the cell phone records would prove it. The phone company has already destroyed those records. So he is now demanding that the NSA releases their copy of the relevant records to the court.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... 4900.story
A suspect on trial for a 2010 bank robbery claims to have been somewhere else at the time of the robbery, and that the cell phone records would prove it. The phone company has already destroyed those records. So he is now demanding that the NSA releases their copy of the relevant records to the court.