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Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance

holy_calamity writes "U.S. citizens have historically been protected from government surveillance by technical limits, not legal ones, writes independent security researcher Ashkan Soltani at MIT Tech Review. He claims that recent leaks show that technical limits are loosening, fast, with data storage and analysis cheap and large Internet services taking care of data collection for free. 'Spying no longer requires following people or planting bugs, but rather filling out forms to demand access to an existing trove of information,' writes Soltani."

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  1. Enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will you morons stop using the title as the beginning of your comment?