> NSA officials told Wyden that not only is the intelligence agency purchasing data on Americans located in the US but that it also bought Americans’ Internet metadata.
Why do you need to spy, when you can simply… buy?
We gave up our data willingly and made it easy for all the 3-letter agencies of the world. We only have ourselves to blame. 🤷♂️
(Link HT: @technology)
Yeah the scandal here isn’t that the NSA bought it, it’s that it’s available for purchase in the first place.
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Oh I’m no fan of the NSA purchasing untold amounts of data about Americans, but seriously how can you blame them for it when the data is readily and legally available for purchase by pretty much anyone? These datasets shouldn’t exist in the first place.
Yeah, “we can do it because there aren’t laws against it” is pretty much the worst justification for anything unethical.
But I guess what do you expect when a large amount of the world equates “legal” with “moral and ethical.”
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Bro what? No. Why can’t we be mad at both the NSA and the fact that it’s available to purchase?
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No, their job is to spy on NON DOMESTIC citizens. A court ruled that what they did under Snowden was illegal as fuck and they pinky swore not to do it anymore. Them spying on American citizens that don’t communicate with foreigners is supposed to be illegal. You said it so confidently, but you are mistaken.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001–2007)
