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by vajrabum 40 days ago
I wish I believed that they have to go to the FISA court for much of anything any more. Instead they go to Palantir and the like which simply buy the data and aggregate it. Very similar to the process of money laundering. And for the data that can't be bought there's the five eyes work around.
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Huh? They buy the data themselves from data brokers, no need to go through a middleman.