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All-Pervasive NSA Surveillance Impacts All of Us
We continue to oppose the federal government's foray into creating a high tech surveillance state where the National Security Agency effectively has unlimited power to spy on Americans. The New York Times has released an op-doc embedded below that offers good reasons all Americans should be concerned, even if most are not doing anything they believe needs to be "hidden."
We previously discussed how community owned networks help to prevent against both corporate and federal government spying in this post.
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