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What you say makes zero sense.

NSA benefited from companies having access to people's data. Those companies were doing their job for them, for free.

What doesn't make sense? They would rather have sole access to all the data even at the expense of having to build their own tools. It's not the first or the last attempt of government taking power through 'protection'.

Where would they get their data from? People voluntarily and freely give their data to many companies; if they stopped doing that the NSA would significantly fewer places to gather their data from.

Except they don't have to delete information. They can try any trick that will work and aren't limited to what the users provide.

Data is power. The rule setters change the rules to favor themselves, as they always do.

You just throw aphorisms around, with no elaboration whatsoever.

You answered neither to my nor your immediate parent's post.

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