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How Trump’s Tweets Could Accidentally Save Your Privacy

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The president’s fact-free missives about wire ‘tapps’ have turned the traditional surveillance debate on its head.

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

It’s the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top legislative priority: a wellspring of surveillance authority that lets them gobble up emails, texts, browser histories, and chats on an industrial scale.

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