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		GaryBluto 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing sur... > Back during the Iraq war days and government overreach into privacy violations, the tech companies were on the side of the American people. They fought to defend the 4th amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM PRISM started in 2007, during the Iraq war.

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leptons 3 days ago [–]

PRISM always seemed to me like an extension of ECHELON from the 1960s. Governments have been doing sigint for a very long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

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