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The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (www.wired.com)

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A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.

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[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We’re all criminals, we just selectively prosecute those we don’t like.

Doesn’t bode well. But I have to imagine they’ve been doing this forever. Didn’t J Edgar Hoover do this to a smaller extent?

[–] Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

And the other day I just had the nth conversation with acquaintances about "who cares? I've nothing to hide".

Yeh? Wait until it's important enough for them to fuck you up, you specifically.