Re:Trump declares emergency over IT threats
by casefields on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @06:45PM
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In the US there are courts I can go to, and the government can get a smackdown and cease its unlawful conduct. Can you show the same for Chinese courts rebuking their government?
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Re:Trump declares emergency over IT threats
by Dystopian on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:18PM
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"In 2017, according to a report by the director of national intelligence, the government obtained 534 million phone records from telephone companies"[1]... I wouldn't quite say they were smacked down in terms of mass metadata surveillance. They literally shut it down cause they couldn't make the data useful.
[1] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nsa-phonere...