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That might be a loophole since they aren't requesting it legally they are buying it like any other can.
Yes. The answer to this isn't to restrict what the NSA can do, the answer is to stop people's privacy being a legally tradable commodity.
Most people don’t have any concept why their privacy matters.
And until something awful happens to them, they aren’t interested in learning it either.
After something awful happens to them, they aren't interested in leading it either*
The awful things haven’t happened to most people yet
Most people aren't interested in learning anything, which was a hard realization to come to as an adult.
I felt so lied to when I left high school, having been told my entire life that people eventually grow up…. And now I’m 40ish and they really don’t.
I fully agree with that.
Fyi, this was only possible since Trump made it legal
What a load of shit.
Not only have they been doing this, blatantly, since the 2000’s (remember PRISM?), but even credit report agencies were originally setup in the 80’s to do exact this, and exploit this exact loophole for the government.
Did big scwary orange man bad do that, too?
ISPs weren't selling it then. Now its part of their business model. That's an important difference.
ISP’s have been collecting and selling browser history since 2010 at least
Them was Obama years, iirc
IIRC that shit started in the mid to late 90s, so under Billy Clinton
OMG, I don't care about which boogyman you fear, it would have happened eventually regardless of color in the position. Money and power speaks much louder than political party.