• AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Nobody forgot. We all depend on the internet for daily life and livelihoods. We are largely powerless against these faceless institutions

    • Dee@lemmings.world
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      1 year ago

      Not that I disagree with you, but I was more responding to the fact that they said they can’t find anybody else reporting about it. I was saying that there’s not much to report because this is kind of old news. I understand why more news agencies aren’t picking up on this, like, government agencies known for sucking up data are still sucking up data. -shrug-

      • TheRazorX@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I don’t disagree, and you’re absolutely right, but i’d argue there’s still a difference between a government organization collecting the data themselves, and the same organization buying it from other brokers. It’s semantics sure, but it’s a new dimension of this fucketry.