• rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I mean, if they’re going to do it either way I’d rather a spy agency have this attitude than not. Silver linings and all that.

    And before you smash those reactionary fingers on the screen/keyboard, I should be clear that Ed Snowden is a national hero and the NSA should, in an idealistic sense, be abolished. Will it? No.

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        Yeah we need to fix our “third party” data collection laws probably more at the source of the problem. Third parties like ISPs, platforms, and other companies part of the surveillance economy have too many rights to collect and distribute PII and to few legal and technical protections for people’s privacy.