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"Such records can identify Americans who are seeking help from a suicide hotline or a hotline for survivors of sexual assault or domestic abuse," Anyone have a
by neom 3y ago
"Such records can identify Americans who are seeking help from a suicide hotline or a hotline for survivors of sexual assault or domestic abuse,"
Anyone have a good hypothesis about why the NSA would want this specific data? Only good thing I can think of is to look for folks in their ranks who are at risk of being compromised.
- hindsightbias 3y agoThey have a mandate allowing electronic observation of foreign nationals activities and filtering out US citizens. Someone posts a threat on FB, tell us exactly how you would filter it and remain in compliance.
- Tanoc 3y agoThey have a history of looking at things like this and cross referencing the data points with known protestors or online figureheads to build files against them. It makes it easier to dismiss a case when you can build a narrative that someone is mentally unwell or biased, or to incite action by making them out to be a threat. The protesters against Atlanta's Cop City who were charged with RICO violations had such a case built against them by using their communications on social media for example.