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That's Scroogled (2007) by Cory Doctorow! Life imitates art, again. https://web.archive.org/web/20070920193501/http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/200

• GaryBluto 8mo ago
  Thanks for that. Good story.
• nine_k 8mo ago
  Not imitates but implements maybe.
• scroogedhard 8mo ago
  [dead]
• godelski 8mo ago
  It's a bit crazy how much we look back at that time and what people thought was tin foil haty. But that was written in 2007, still 6 years before Snowden. 7 years before the Director of the NSA (Hayden) told Congress they kill people based on metadata. The invasion of privacy has been slow, creeping, and just waiting for that Turnkey Tyrant. We fooled ourselves into thinking we'd never elect someone who would turn that key. But in reality the key has been slowly turning, until finally it opened the latch