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Re:NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing by Theodores on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:26PM (#11262992)
I think they are a few organisational steps away from something truly terrifying. That will be when the NSA just hand over the 'graph' dataset of all the drug dealers to the FBI/local police. As it stands they have to have a clue, e.g. a name before they can get particulars. So policing is still 'hampered' conveniently for those that use drugs. So long as their network does not arouse the suspicions of the police then there need not be any suspicions.

However, if the complete 'graph' is just handed over then even the most discreet of networks could be uprooted, all chains and links identified, geolocated too. This could be done. All it would take is a Donald Trump to take it up another level. He could get a lot of votes by promising to use NSA data to eradicate drugs from America once and for all, with no drug-dealer left behind...

Aside from the 'where next' aspects, as it is, I found this article to be quite shocking. So much for the 'land of the free'.

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Re:NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing by rand1012 on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:45PM (#11263131)
Like Hillary wouldn't. She has Drug Warrior in her blood.
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Re:NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing by duncan_bayne on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:34PM (#11264052)
She would turn from that position the moment it became financially or politically expedient to do so.

Edited: for those downvoting, I invite you to consider how her (stated) positions on abortion and the black community have changed over the years. Everyone learns and changes their opinions over time, but her changes are too politically convenient to be simply personal development.

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Re:NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing by anexprogrammer on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:56PM (#11264141)
Most of the developed world is discovering freedom is something we (the public) don't much care about.

So the "land of the free" (and everywhere else) is free to give away all the hard-won freedoms to all and sundry. And they are. Because terrorism.

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