Unclassified letter reveals NSA's warrantless purchase of Americans' internet browsing data
Unclassified letter reveals NSA's warrantless purchase of Americans' internet browsing data
In an unclassified December 11 letter addressed to Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden obtained by the New York Times, NSA director Paul Nakasone confirms the agency buys...
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?
Does the NSA need a warrant to purchase information that's being legally gathered and sold?
While it's extremely immoral and unethical, I'm not sure about unconstitutional.
8Does the NSA need a warrant to purchase information that’s being legally gathered and sold?
The governments in the US shouldn't be collecting non-public information without a warrant if acquiring that information directly would require a warrant. Seems like a clear infringement of the 4th amendment.
4No, no more than its illegal for a detective to use evidence seized in a raid against a thief ring, to arrest drug dealers because there was a photo of them holding big bags of cocaine with "We Love Dealing Drugs" written and autographed on the back. They'd never have a search warrant for the dealers' house normally, but because it was robbed by someone else and the photo turned up somewhere else for them to find, it's fair game.
3Well if a thing is immoral and unethical, then isn't it reasonable to call for it to be MADE illegal?
2Sure, but ex post facto is a thing. If people feel that this should be illegal they should write their representatives, but this headline is disingenuous.
Actions are only illegal if they were against the law at the time they were taken. If fireworks become illegal on July 5th I can't be found guilty for shooting them off on July 4th.
The headline implies the NSA broke a law that does not exist, actively misleading those who read it. Shame on the "journalist" or editor that wrote it. Fabricated criticisms and grievances dilute genuine ones.
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This is why people should start using Tor alongside their regular browser every day, even if it is for trivial things. Eventually it'll be the difference between life and death for some poor bugger and the least everyone else can do is provide a bit of obfuscating cover.
5As if the NSA isn't running an army of exit nodes.
3TOR was originally a DARPA project and everyone seems to forget this.
I mean, it's caught a ton of pedos so I can't really be angry but anyone who thought a DARPA project wasn't going to be massively salted with 3 letter agency tracking servers are just plain naive.
Hell I wouldn't be surprised if a ton of those bitcoin doublers weren't NSA agents making some sidecash.
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But... But... TikTok bad!!
1...Yes
4Just because one thing is bad doesn't mean other things can't be.
Tiktok is bad because it weaponizes short attention span laziness and feeds depression.
TOR is bad because there is a good chance the government has stripped away its privacy capabilities.
Frankly in my mind that makes Tiktok a fucktonne worse.
Most of the people 'harmed' by TOR exit node scraping are pedos and illegal weapons dealers.
Most of the people harmed by tiktok is literally 2 generations of youth.
Can you not see the difference?
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