The Metadata Trap
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/08/04/whistleblowers-surveillance-fbi-trump
The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against Whistleblowers Government whistleblowers are increasingly being charged under laws such as the Espionage Act, but they aren’t spies. They’re ordinary Americans and, like most of us, they carry smartphones that automatically get backed up to the cloud. When they want to talk to someone, they send them a text or call them on the phone. They use Gmail and share memes and talk politics on Facebook. Sometimes (...)
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