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The National Security Agency’s director has confirmed that the agency buys Americans’ web browsing data from brokers without first obtaining warrants.

Shit like this weakens America. They should be charged with treason.

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Nah. Instead we need to fix both the internet as well as user habits. Make privacy a default and make people care about privacy.

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Pretty sure it's in the works.

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without first obtaining warrants

Thats the whole point of paying. If a company is selling is most probably because you checked the boxes and grant permission. so, no warrants needed. Isn’t this the whole purpose behind the CIA investment on fuckbook

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Right. They don't need warrants any more than any other business who buys data from credit agencies and ad tech firms.

I've been reading the excellent Genesis Book recently, charting lots of the cypherpunk history and ideas.

They all saw this coming 30+ years ago.

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Whose money does the NSA use to pay them with?

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Tax payers, of course!

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