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Ad-tech does not put people in prison or deport them. The NSA does, via parallel reconstruction.

No it just takes the money out of their pocket and makes them addicted to things so it is Ok.

It is not okay, but it is not anywhere as bad as what the government does in the name of security.

The NSA does not do either of those things

They do on occasion pass their intel to other domestic agencies which then do the field work of parallel reconstruction and locking people up.

Additionally, the NSA has been silently sabotaging computer security for decades with their exploitable backdoors, making things worse for everyone.