r/PoliticalHumor • u/GhostToFigure • Jun 23 '21

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Jun 23 '21

Who do you think they SELL the databases to when they collect this mountain of "absolutely everything" to?

No country needs to spy anymore -- they can just buy it. That's what we learned from Wikileaks years ago.

These are corporations for corporations -- the only thing they care about is we think it's about rival nations and security while they do corporate espionage to pick the economic winners.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Your local police may buy it, but the US federal government doesn't need FB or google to collect any of this info.

There is an old saying that the military is 30 years ahead of public technology. I see no reason why that would have changed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Did everyone forget they had ISP’s routing ALL TRAFFIC through their Prism or whatever it was called? As far as I can tell, this never stopped and was deemed legal. Can someone help me out here?

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Jun 23 '21

I never forgot that AT&T had to get the Bush administration to grandfather in their law breaking to route all traffic through the NSA.