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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by HWR_14 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:22PM (#36312525)
> The privacy Americans previously enjoyed came for free

Which privacy are you talking about. I feel like you have some idea in mind, but that statement can be read numerous ways.

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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by user3939382 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:30PM (#36312688)
For starters not having all our communications scraped into a data center in Utah
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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by HWR_14 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:10PM (#36319975)
Hasn't the government been collecting telecommunications metadata since at least the origin of the phone?
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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by user3939382 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @07:33AM (#36324288)
No. Is this a defense of the NSA’s illegal dragnet surveillance of American communications?

That data center isn’t there because they ran out of space for CDRs.

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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by HWR_14 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @07:57AM (#36324510)
I'm not defending anything that is currently happening. I'm asking what privacy in the past do you think existed?
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