A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/
4 Comments
Skanky@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Did everyone forget Snowden already?
LollerCorleone@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
Many people forgot, many others now think that he is the villain of the story just because he did what he had to do to save his life, a whole lot don't care because 'they have nothing to hide'. For what it's worth, people who actually care about their privacy is a very small minority in pretty much all countries.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
But Obama said he put safeguards in place!
5ubieee@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
yayyy ^-^