• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    It’s kind of sad. He sacrificed his freedom to let us know about surveillance of the citizenry and we shrugged a little and accepted all the surveillance they could throw at us.

    • pfried@reddthat.com
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      4 hours ago

      There was one program that “spied” on Americans in his whole dump, and it was shut down after, so the opposite of what you said happened. (It collected all phone pen register data in the U.S.)