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Presumably, the three letter agency can't actively perform surveillance but the data bought from companies wasn't illegally collected, so it's fine.


> wasn't illegally collected

I understand this technicality; it doesn’t seem to answer my question, though I may have presented it poorly. If it’s ostensibly “wrong” (as some proxy) to collect something, it doesn’t matter how it was acquired given there’s still some intact collection.


If the rules are ironclad (in an ideal world) then you're right about 3 violating 1. In the current world, don't count on it.




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