U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Personal Data

Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by amelius on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:48AM (#36312015)

> Please let me know how to buy bulk consumer data from Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/etc-ad platform.

Step 1: become a U.S. Spy Agency.

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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by lesuorac on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:17PM (#36312460)

Then why did the NSA tap Google [1]?

Is Snowden some kind of 4d chess false flag? lol ....

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5046958/nsa-secretly-tap...

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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by 93po on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:27PM (#36312640)

It is perfectly reasonable with the track record of the NSA to both pay Google to provide user data (under threats of NSLs or a million other things) along with also spying on Google to check to deceit or things they don't want to disclose.

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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by kmoser on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:36PM (#36315739)

Or pretty much any US agency

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