An obscure surveillance program has been secretly collecting and analyzing domestic phone records. The program is called Domestic Analytical Services.

Imagine that every time you make a phone call, someone is keeping an extraordinarily detailed record of the call.

  • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    And it’s not even like they do a good job at it. They just kinda spy at you and then instead of doing something grand and convoluted they go

    “eh, let’s feed the data to the advertising machine”

    It’s kind of sad since this kinda data could be used to prevent harm to people.