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NSA is buying Americans' internet browsing records without a warrant (techcrunch.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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NSA is buying Americans' internet browsing records without a warrant::"Web browsing records can reveal sensitive, private information about a person based on where they go on the internet," said Sen. Ron Wyden.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This has been commonplace for decades. The government agencies went big into it after 9/11. Funny thing was that I found out about it from a competing company telling me about how the company I worked for at the time was doing it.

I should note that I'm firmly against it, just that it's not new.

It's illegal to spy on your own citizens in the US, but completely okay if someone else does the spying and you buy the data.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Hell, Verizon got caught installing spy hardware for the government in phone data centers in the mid-90's.

There was a brief storm about it, then the news media moved on to something else.

I'm sure it's still there, at every phone provider, or something like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It was AT&T

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Verizon got caught installing spy hardware for the government in phone data centers in the mid-90's.

There was no Verizon until 2000. It might have been Bell Atlantic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Try puri.sm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You may as well consider them government employees if they're doing it at the government's buying power.