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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by rhino369 on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:20PM (#10605014)
One huge peice of evidence that we can actually trust the government is that the Bush era DOJ threw a fit when the workers thought Bush's NSA went to far. Then we had a national debate about it.

Plus even if you didn't trust the government not to go fascist they could recreate a NSA within a few months anyway.

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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by rayiner on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:52PM (#10605123)
They wouldn't even need that. They'd roll tanks down to Google/Facebook HQ and have recreated it within 30 minutes. That's the absurdity of the commercial/government dichotomy approach to privacy: any government that would routinely use surveillance information against ordinary people would have no problem raiding the offices of internet/telecom companies who have all that data anyway.
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