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[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago

Sounds less like "protecting your privacy" and more like "letting you know when the government is violating your privacy."

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

What exactly do you expect them to do other than notify you? They can't do anything against ESCHELON or Stellar Wind or MYSTIC or PRISM or or or or

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

of course but still what if we wouldn't spread false things. if they are not allowed to protect my privacy, we shouldn't (and neither should them) cqll it protecting our privacy, because that's simply false and misleading

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

OK, fair enough.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

A surveillance canary

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