I was once approached by a company located in a major city in Ohio. They were pitching me to come work for them but the role required getting clearance to do the work, because they were contracting for the federal government.

Without said clearance, all they could tell me was they scraped the open internet and built profiles on citizens, and then would surface this info in an easily searchable interface. I declined getting clearance and going deeper than that.

If some random ass company in Cleveland is doing contract work equivalent to the things Snowden exposed, it’s happening everywhere else, and nobody has a damn clue. This was after Snowden exposed Prism.

We’re fucked.