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US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/519935

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230705212257/https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference is that they can't use illgally obtain information publically even if they have it, but if they got the same information by buying it it's perfectlly legal to use it in a court of law, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm sure people appreciate the distinction when they're being harassed, surveilled, detained, and assaulted by intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

There's also a super hush hush court which signs off on a lot of information sharing, thus making it legal in other courts.