CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoTankiejerk is now on lemmysh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down10
arrow-up191arrow-down1external-linkTankiejerk is now on lemmysh.itjust.worksCannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square108fedilink
minus-squarePeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 year agothe US gov’t definitely doesn’t buy your data, they slurp up every electronic signal they can get and store it all in their yottabyte complex in Utah they’ve been siphoning off internet traffic from fiber cables at ISPs since fiber became a thing
minus-squareemizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·edit-21 year agothey do both https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-government-buys-data-americans-little-oversight-report-finds-rcna89035 https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/16/23762403/data-odni-report-wyden https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/
minus-squarePeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoi stand corrected, likely they buy it so they can avoid parallel construction but yeah looks like they do buy it too
the US gov’t definitely doesn’t buy your data, they slurp up every electronic signal they can get and store it all in their yottabyte complex in Utah they’ve been siphoning off internet traffic from fiber cables at ISPs since fiber became a thing
they do both
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-government-buys-data-americans-little-oversight-report-finds-rcna89035
https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/16/23762403/data-odni-report-wyden
https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/
i stand corrected, likely they buy it so they can avoid parallel construction but yeah looks like they do buy it too