Terrorism fears are ramping up government spying and creating more laws around cloud data access -- it'll cost us billions
As of last week, the National Security Agency can no longer cull through Americans' phone records, but it can continue to eavesdrop on our emails, video chats, and documents.
The NSA can keep metadata already collected until Feb. 29, 2016, and
your phone data will continue to be collected by telecom companies.
But the fact that phone records can no longer be easily searched is
nearly meaningless to the world of cloud computing. If the data is still
up for grabs -- and it is -- then we're likely to have the same
concerns we did before the USA Freedom Act that curtailed some of the
NSA's activities last week.
In fact, we should be more concerned because there will likely be a shift of focus in the NSA from phone records to data.
