[mixmastamyk]

For the obtuse, NSA's primary sources are big-tech, among others. There's an information-superhighway from one to the other. But you must have known that already, right?

Information is power. Lot of examples from history, say WWII, holocaust and Japanese internment from IBM census data. Stasi, Red scare, blacklisting, Alan Turing coming and going.

More recently, IRS targeting the tea-party, facial recognition, DEA parallel construction, data brokers, data breaches, Chinese persecution, social credit.

Yes, Snowden outlined in his writing what was specifically immoral and undemocratic, such as x-key-score sourced largely from google and friends. Educate yourself.