I think all those articles into details also help to triviliaze the issue.
"They do this specific thing, or they do that specific thing" -- at the level of implementation / deployment etc.
The "unsettling" thing should be that they spy on citizens, period. Not how they do it, if it's 200,000 or 40.000.000 targets, how long they retain the data, if they're "allowed" to see them, etc...
"They do this specific thing, or they do that specific thing" -- at the level of implementation / deployment etc.
The "unsettling" thing should be that they spy on citizens, period. Not how they do it, if it's 200,000 or 40.000.000 targets, how long they retain the data, if they're "allowed" to see them, etc...