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Linked – NSA Given More Ability to Share Raw Intelligence Data

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

“From a privacy perspective, this feels like a really bad idea to me.”

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I agree. We all pretty much know the NSA is snooping on us, now they’re going to share the information with a bunch of other government agencies, and countless number of people are going to have access to the data the NSA is collecting about all of us.

I’m sure none of those folks would misuse that information, right? Ha!

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/nsa_given_more_.html

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