Exploring the surveillance partnership between the government and data brokers

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged last year that commercially available data about individual people allows the government to compile information “of a type and level of sensitivity that historically could have been obtained, if at all, only through targeted (and predicated) collection.”  That commercially available information — captured and packaged

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