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by chaxor 1123 days ago
Great point - a good threat model usually targets all companies first, such as FAANG, since they are the worst aggressors, and are well known to be leaky (data dumps of personal info are leaked almost daily now), whereas the government tends to be seemingly less leaky and have more narrow data interests, i.e. less interested in the wide array of data that companies extract from people. It's strange how often the government is the main entity discussed in privacy concerns while completely ignoring the much larger problem of corporations in that area.
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> more narrow data interests,

Except that the government has instituted dragnets that effectively hoover up the data of everyone

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/effs-flagship-jewel-v-...