The agency opposes an amendment that prevents it from using data brokers.

Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data::undefined

  • blankmind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 year ago

    Our data. About us. Bought by our government. With tax money we gave them. How can I get a piece of this pie?

    Yes, these companies they are buying from are getting rich off our tax money. Boycott Google? Not gonna happen. They just get your money indirectly.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    You know… if the data is such that … they need to get a warrant… maybe these companies shouldn’t be able to collect it in the first place?

  • watson387@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    Yeah fuck that bullshit. They shouldn’t have been sold it without a warrant in the first place, either.

    Edit: grammar

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    As I recall, a warrant is only relevant if they want to either ① gain access to stuff that you physically protect, or ② charge you with a crime. If they just wanna stick their noses in your digital crotch because you smell like a hottie terrorist, a warrant is not required.

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Technically they need one to force a company to hand over data as well, but in this case they’re not forcing anything. The issue here isn’t the NSA buying the data, it’s Google fucking selling it in the first place. We desperately need better data privacy laws. If Google couldn’t sell the data, and ideally couldn’t collect it in the first place, then the NSA would have nothing to buy and really would need a warrant.

      • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        To be clear, Google/Alphabet is not named in the article; which probably refers rather to military contractor companies such as Palantir.

      • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        Google doesn’t sell your data. That would eliminate their entire business model.

        What Google sells is a platform with access to that data to target ads. They have the data, you have a target audience you want to advertise to, you pay them to make sure your ads reach your target with surgical precision.

  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    169·
    1 year ago

    Sucks living in an authoritarian country with a military dictatorship that spies on its citizens at all levels, pumps propaganda into their homes and schools, and if you disagree with any of it the whole society thinks you’re terrorist and tries to “reeducate” you.

    • ChickenBoo@lemmy.jnks.xyzEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Literally from the first sentence of the first article…

      “obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.”

      Second also references a search warrant affidavit.