• Mojave@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The NSA is buying this data from normal data broker companies. They aren’t even the ones collecting the data here.

    That means that private companies are spying on you more than the NSA is now, and the NSA just wants a piece of the pie.

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    11 months ago

    I’m shocked they had to buy it. I always just assumed it was part of their birthright…

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Guess its easier than trying to quietly pressure corporations to put backdoors into everything.