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Well the "love interest" story is much worse. The stasi maintained the authoritarian political and psychological control over the german population through blac
by mjburgess 13y ago
Well the "love interest" story is much worse. The stasi maintained the authoritarian political and psychological control over the german population through blackmail and spying.
Invading the privacy of (innocent, or incidentally guilty) citizens turns the NSA from a national security agency into a secret police.
- pessimizer 13y ago>Invading the privacy of (innocent, or incidentally guilty) citizens turns the NSA from a national security agency into a secret police. They've already announced that invading the privacy of the innocent is official policy. The fact that errant analysts take 10 minutes off from executing algorithms that mine your mother's phone history in order to read their girlfriend's emails is a distraction.