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.
We’ve known they’ve been doing this since at least Snowden, what’s the story?
Remember that government agency that hoovers up all our data? Yeah, they’re still doing that. Only they don’t have to try as hard because they can just buy our info instead of snooping for it (but they’re also still snooping).
Maybe it’s good to remind people it’s still happening because apparently everyone forgot we were told they’ve been doing this, for a while.
Not that I disagree with you, but I was more responding to the fact that they said they can’t find anybody else reporting about it. I was saying that there’s not much to report because this is kind of old news. I understand why more news agencies aren’t picking up on this, like, government agencies known for sucking up data are still sucking up data. -shrug-
Maybe it’s good to remind people it’s still happening because apparently everyone forgot we were told they’ve been doing this, for a while.
anecdotally: people chose to forget so that they don’t have to change their world view. every single snowden revelations denier i know is either software engineer, network engineer, or devops
The hilarious part (in a bleak fashion), is I can’t find many other articles discussing this.
Then everyone will panic and go crazy when someone like Trump wins and they have access to all this. History repeats.
We’ve known they’ve been doing this since at least Snowden, what’s the story?
Remember that government agency that hoovers up all our data? Yeah, they’re still doing that. Only they don’t have to try as hard because they can just buy our info instead of snooping for it (but they’re also still snooping).
Maybe it’s good to remind people it’s still happening because apparently everyone forgot we were told they’ve been doing this, for a while.
Nobody forgot. We all depend on the internet for daily life and livelihoods. We are largely powerless against these faceless institutions
Not that I disagree with you, but I was more responding to the fact that they said they can’t find anybody else reporting about it. I was saying that there’s not much to report because this is kind of old news. I understand why more news agencies aren’t picking up on this, like, government agencies known for sucking up data are still sucking up data. -shrug-
What really blows my mind are the people who attack Snowden while claiming this mass data collection is perfectly fine.
anecdotally: people chose to forget so that they don’t have to change their world view. every single snowden revelations denier i know is either software engineer, network engineer, or devops
That’s a good point, as a Sys Admin I’ve ran into a few coworkers like that myself. Not sure how somebody could deny it at this point tbh though.
They’ve been doing this since the 1950s, younger generations just didn’t realize the scope until Snowden.
Yeah, that’s why I said “at least” because I’m sure there’s earlier examples but that was the largest recent example.
Or imagine if they were to ever get hacked.
Hostile governments can probably just buy the data from the same data brokers the US got it from
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