Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based on Metadata
Since the very first Snowden leak a year ago, one of the more common refrains from defenders of the program is "but it's just metadata, not actual content, so what's the big deal?"
Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based On Metadata (via Techdirt)
Since the very first Snowden leak a year ago, one of the more common refrains from defenders of the program is “but it’s just metadata, not actual content, so what’s the big deal?” Beyond the fact that other programs do collect content, we’ve pointed…
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