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bombcar on July 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell...

I would suspect it was already being done (in part, or in whole who knows) and the attacks were an excuse to "legitimize" it going forward.

kevin_thibedeau on July 19, 2022 [–]

It was definitely being done before 9/11. I know of one data broker who was under contract with a certain TLA in the 90's to perform hardware assisted rapid data scanning.

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