• NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You don’t need a warrant to purchase data.

    That data would have been collected by a private company, and sold to them. The NSA isn’t the only entity purchasing that metadata.

    Not only should the public be concerned on the NSA’s intention for that data, but for the countless private companies holding & using it too.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      I heard from someone that used to work on the military side of things of data collection. He said a few years ago Amazon came in with their servers and set up their tech and then had to teach the gov side about data collection and all that. I wouldn’t be surprised if Gov just started contracting out their spying.