Gizmodo: How You Could End Up in a Government Surveillance Database and Never Know It

“’You know it when you see it,’ said Abigail Kunkler, counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), when asked to define a surveillance dragnet.”

“Typically, she explained, they have a few common characteristics, like the breadth of the information they gather and the large number of people captured by them.”

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