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chiefalchemist on Sept 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)

That's a good question. My reply would be I'm not sure the intelligence community / legal profession can collect and hoard such things without legal approval.

Certainly Equifax has other data. Maybe they didn't get what they wanted? Maybe Equifax isn't being transparent? Maybe they don't know?

tskaiser on Sept 24, 2017 [–]

That's a lot of maybes to support an already unlikely scenario.

chiefalchemist on Sept 25, 2017 | [–]

Unlikely? Because in the history of the NSA or CIA there has never been an "No way??!! They did what???"

What do you think the NSA is doing with all that computing (and storage) power? Processing cat photos? :)

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