President-elect Donald Trump is only months away from wielding the power of American intelligence agencies, including the NSA's mass surveillance operation. 。
Many people on Twitter have already begun to voice their concern. 。
SEE ALSO:This t-shirt is the scary logical endpoint of Trump’s media tantrums 。This, they've said, is what happens when a complacent nation allows the construction of a legally dubious mass-surveillance system under a president not generally viewed as irresponsible. Then, when the reigns of the country are handed to a man whose campaign staffers wouldn't even allow him the use of his own Twitter account in the lead-up to the election, it's too late to do much. 。
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If it's terrifying to imagine Trump in charge of history's most expansive & penetrating surveillance apparatus, perhaps it should not exist. 。
— Sam Adler-Bell (SamAdlerBell) November 8, 2016 。
President Obama signed into law new surveillance restrictions in 2015 that limited government access to phone records, but the American surveillance apparatus extends far beyond access to phone records. 。
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The agency has a program called XKeyscore that allows it to track an internet user's every move. 。 The NSA gathers text messages and has a team of hackers to break into data the agency can't readily access. 。These are just a few examples from one agency, and we only know about them because former NSA contractor Edward Snowden fed this information to publications such as。
The Guardian 。
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back in 2013. 。
Snowden, it turns out, also warned us that we were just an election away from surveillance-based tyranny.。
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