Their narrative is that most of the cases were mistaken surveillance of takeout orders.
Basically they were doing the same thing the NSA does now only with murkier legality. DARPA invented it from their information awareness office. Check the official logo if you want a trip
It's probably nothing, but it just kind of stuck out given how much of their surveillance involved these so called pizza cases. I mean how often do you really call for takeout relative to all your phone calls, why would they keep hitting on "takeout orders" for the vast vast majority of their cases. Unless the pizza cases don't mean takeout orders, they mean they were conducting surveillance on the network of people responsible for this whole clusterfuck and when questioned that was their excuse
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Martel-Sobieski ago
Their narrative is that most of the cases were mistaken surveillance of takeout orders.
Basically they were doing the same thing the NSA does now only with murkier legality. DARPA invented it from their information awareness office. Check the official logo if you want a trip
It's probably nothing, but it just kind of stuck out given how much of their surveillance involved these so called pizza cases. I mean how often do you really call for takeout relative to all your phone calls, why would they keep hitting on "takeout orders" for the vast vast majority of their cases. Unless the pizza cases don't mean takeout orders, they mean they were conducting surveillance on the network of people responsible for this whole clusterfuck and when questioned that was their excuse
Singleservename ago
First I thought that 99% pizza was indeed a synecdoche for innocuous intercepts.
But then I saw that masonic logo and motto (knowledge is power) Now I think you could be on to something:
They could very well be signalling that the 99% blackmailable info was not what they were after, thus assuaging politicians' fears of the program.