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kevin_thibedeau
on Nov 20, 2017
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Pentagon contractor leaves social media spy archiv...
This isn't intrusive spying. Collecting publicly available data is fair game and legal. Commercial data aggregators have prevented us from having any data privacy laws. The government may as well take advantage of a good deal too.
ikeboy
on Nov 20, 2017
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Is the government freely allowed to break Facebook TOS in the way that got others in trouble (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur...
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kaoD
on Nov 20, 2017
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> collected user information from Facebook and
displayed it on their own website
I think that's an important distinction.
ikeboy
on Nov 20, 2017
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As opposed to letting anyone who bumped into the bucket see it?
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