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by wartywhoa23 15 days ago
> Having worked at Apple, I will say I firmly believe they do not sell data.

Selling data is so shabby! Why sell when you can just give it away to letter-soup friends?
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fragmede 14 days ago
Because that's not legal, so they sell it to third party data brokers and it gets resold to someone the TLAs can buy it legally from.
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yencabulator 11 days ago
US wiretapping operations are not bound by publicly-visible laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

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wartywhoa23 14 days ago
Illegal to share data with entities that are themselves law enforcement, and which they are known to be demanding, not just asking to share out of good will?
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