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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by bombcar on Monday July 18, 2022 @07:18PM (#32145380)
I would suspect it was already being done (in part, or in whole who knows) and the attacks were an excuse to "legitimize" it going forward.
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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday July 18, 2022 @09:25PM (#32146372)
It was definitely being done before 9/11. I know of one data broker who was under contract with a certain TLA in the 90's to perform hardware assisted rapid data scanning.
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