re: The NSA existed before the Patriot Act, bless your hearts if you think PAct caused spying

Most of the people who bleed from their vaginas over the Patriot Act think Snowden was a traitor and that having Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, etc record their every waking and non waking thought and action is perfectly normal because they "have nothing to hide".

Surveillance capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our lives in 2024. Our cars, our phones, our homes, our work places, our cities, our banks, etc are all collecting and trafficking that data.

The feds don't even need the Patriot Act or FISA 702s or warrants anymore, they can just buy the same data for pennies from big tech and the data brokers.