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magicarpet

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17. Many people and parts of our government just love privatized data companies. Personal information and surveillance,...

Reply to Karasu (Reply #8)

Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:43 PM

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.... gets sucked up by these privatized data collection companies Then government agencies approach them for personal information they want access to. They then don't need warrants, judges, or courts to access any info they want to get their hands on.

The privatized data brokers are happy to sell it to them at a hefty price. Then the government agency says we did not violate anyone's privacy rights we purchased the info on the open market.

Your privacy right take a kick in the teeth and the data collection surveillance & security industrial complex makes a financial killing spying on you because it is so damn lucrative and profitable for them.

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