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corruption Trump's NSA will be able to share its firehose of surveillance data with 16 government agencies (Thanks, Obama) Cory Doctorow
politics Germany, France and the UK are moving the EU to continuous, unaccountable, warrantless mass surveillance Cory Doctorow
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