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Don't we spy on their citizens for them, and they spy on our citizens for us, sidestepping the no spying locally ban?
by RichardHeart 10y ago
Don't we spy on their citizens for them, and they spy on our citizens for us, sidestepping the no spying locally ban?
- nyolfen 10y agothis article refers to sharing between US federal intelligence agencies, not international sharing agreements -- though there is some evidence that what you described is the case, for instance: https://cryptome.org/2015/09/gchq-illegal-spying-us.htm https://cryptome.org/2015/09/gchq-illegal-spying-us.htm
- RichardHeart 10y agoIt's similar to parallel construction in that, if by law you can't share data with someone else, you could just ask your buddies to share their copy of the same data with that someone else. It would be like spammers selling their "remove" lists to each other. I guess the next time China or Russia hacks us, they'll get a much bigger reward. I'm not sure how you could really get bigger than the entire top secret clearance OPM db. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...