NSA Buying Bulk Surveillance Data on Americans without a Warrant
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The NSA finally admitted to buying bulk data on Americans from data brokers, in response to a query by Senator Wyden.
This is almost certainly illegal, although the NSA maintains that it is legal until it’s told otherwise.
Here are Wyden’s press release and some news articles.
Tags: data collection, data privacy, metadata, NSA, privacy, surveillance
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