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How government agencies use your social media data for surveillance

Most of us know the internet isn’t a particularly private place. But your data is not just vulnerable to prying eyes. It’s for sale. And one of the buyers is the federal government.

Our WBUR colleagues at the podcast Endless Thread, Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson, spoke with Dell Cameron at Wired.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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Amory Sivertson
Ben Brock Johnson
Marquis Neal