I believe that the government collects every email written. Here’s why.
The government consists of bureaucrats who are constantly looking for a reason to maintain their little kingdoms inside the divisions and departments of the state. Collecting every email sounds like the sort of ditch digging make-work that the state used to do with an updated technological twist. It sounds more impressive than it is, in other words. I would imagine that there are trillions, maybe more, of emails sitting in some computer somewhere. How does the state sift out what it needs from that? And those who are actually involved in some kind of nefarious activity aren’t going to put in their address line, “Cocaine shipment at the docks with tonight’s freighter.” How does the state sift through code words, idiom, nuance, and hint that people use to communicate?
So it sounds like government appropriations in a supersized effort to look like something important is happening, when actually it’s a huge cluster chasing stupidity with money down the toilet. In that way it makes sense.
And if really bad guys wanted to get around this, they’d write notes on paper.
Like Clinton did, no doubt.
WIRED magazine months back had the cover story on the biggest NSA farm being built in the desert. Scary stuff. I found it hilarious that Google was ‘concerned’ about govt requests “90%” of the time when they are in cahoots directly with the NSA and even helped create that private airport for Google execs in Florida. That’s why i never subscribed to gmail or use Google docs.
recursive Boolean->AI->other PI->98% cutaway in junk...
Meanwhile, no one who works in the government can ever seem to find the emails I send them. And I can't find the emails they send me either. Basically we spend all day on the Beltway blowing up each other's email boxes with stuff we've already sent each other before.
Glad SOMEONE is saving our emails /s