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Wwwweb t1_j4gsex6 wrote

Reply to comment by Worsebetter in NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again by Sorin61

OSINT is a thing.

A lot of stuff is on the internet archive, including tapatalk, and I'm sure that various projects have indexed that data by whatever identifying information there is. Email address, for example.

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zerosaved t1_j4izn7q wrote

And the government hires firms that specialize in being able to filter out noise from big data to find exactly what they’re looking for and all associated digital trails, for example, Palantir. They can pull all of your data and internet behaviors and patterns and create a timeline spanning years with granular access down to the seconds of each day. And they could do that all before even being given the go-ahead to access your “protected” data.

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