> NSA officials told Wyden that not only is the intelligence agency purchasing data on Americans located in the US but that it also bought Americans’ Internet metadata.
Why do you need to spy, when you can simply… buy?
We gave up our data willingly and made it easy for all the 3-letter agencies of the world. We only have ourselves to blame. 🤷♂️
(Link HT: @technology)
Yeah, “we can do it because there aren’t laws against it” is pretty much the worst justification for anything unethical.
But I guess what do you expect when a large amount of the world equates “legal” with “moral and ethical.”