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xp1337 posted...

I don't know about it being not legal given they specify "publicly available" data but yes that sounds rather dystopian in theory... and jarringly out of place with the rest of the EO with the only things they have in common are "things on the internet."

Given how this administration tends to act like organized crime I'm inclined to believe they're "just" trying to grab advertising data from social media/big data for use in their political campaign but there are definitely chilling precedents that could be set here by ordering the collection.

i mean if it's collecting public data they don't even need to make an order for that, they already do that. law enforcement (aka, the executive) does this all the time already, networking a person's contacts through that is also already done by the NSA (two hops rule), so like... it's nothing new?

the whole order is out of place because it's not even a damn order to do anything itself, it's an order to have a lot of other places maybe do something, which would then lead to a lengthy back and forth. it has rhetoric that can raise eyebrows and make headlines but it's not actually doing anything.

...which makes me wonder what we should be paying attention to instead.

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