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Unclassified letter reveals NSA's warrantless purchase of Americans' internet browsing data (www.techspot.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My data is already bought and sold by companies. But when government agencies do it, suddenly we only need to stop them. Stop this madness. It shouldn’t matter if it’s corporations or a government, why not stop the sale of people’s data?

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

Your argument about the downsides of tiktok (attention span and laziness) applies to anything

Lol no, Bytedance hired a whole think tank of psychologists to create a second filter standard for non-Chinese users that is differently curated from their Chinese user set. I'm not even wasting the time to detail it more because it has been in the news for years now