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It may be better for me to rephrase this part of my post like this: > ""public health" is now likely to be a part of the surveillance justification tool kit to
by briefcomment 5y ago
It may be better for me to rephrase this part of my post like this:
> ""public health" is now likely to be a part of the surveillance justification tool kit too"
I don't have any specific examples, but this article gives a good gist of what might be at stake. [1]
I think this is a key quote
> "The Snowden disclosures came twelve years after the initial implementation of the Patriot Act, and it was only last year that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the subsequent dragnet surveillance employed by the NSA may well have been unconstitutional."
[1] https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/government-data-collection-covid-transparency.html https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/government-data-collect...