A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.
  • AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What’s new, Snowden blew the whistle over a decade ago now. Taxpayer’s money being used to fund mass surveillance.

    And now more recently taxpayer’s money being used to buy their information from private companies all in the name of national security.

    They want to ban TikTok because they don’t want a government entity from harvesting their data but its fine when the US government does it because they always paint themselves as the good guys and not as the biggest and longest running group of international terrorists ever…

    • DetectiveSanity@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I’ve yet to find someone good in the office since Kennedy!

      Fancy charisma or not, all of them have some agenda to attend to that does not align with people’s best interest.

  • thisn@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not even shocked - as long as we allow data brokers to to collect massive amounts of data about people, this parctice won’t change. But the worst thing about it is that we hardly can escape this data collection as long as we use the world wide web.

    In my opinion it is wrong that governments are allowed to buy this data - but in my opinion instead trying to make it illegal for governments to buy this data, we should rather try to put a stop to data brokers so that this data is not collected in the first place.