▲ 442 ▼ The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (www.wired.com) submitted 3 years ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 81 comments fedilink hide all child comments Wired (https://archive.is/gsJ7I)
[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Nobody forgot. We all depend on the internet for daily life and livelihoods. We are largely powerless against these faceless institutions permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dee@lemmings.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) 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- permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheRazorX@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I don't disagree, and you're absolutely right, but i'd argue there's still a difference between a government organization collecting the data themselves, and the same organization buying it from other brokers. It's semantics sure, but it's a new dimension of this fucketry. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dee@lemmings.world 1 point 3 years ago Fair enough. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dee@lemmings.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) 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- permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheRazorX@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I don't disagree, and you're absolutely right, but i'd argue there's still a difference between a government organization collecting the data themselves, and the same organization buying it from other brokers. It's semantics sure, but it's a new dimension of this fucketry. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dee@lemmings.world 1 point 3 years ago Fair enough. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheRazorX@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I don't disagree, and you're absolutely right, but i'd argue there's still a difference between a government organization collecting the data themselves, and the same organization buying it from other brokers. It's semantics sure, but it's a new dimension of this fucketry. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dee@lemmings.world 1 point 3 years ago Fair enough. permalink fedilink source parent