NSA Opens Door to Domestic Internet Spying, Privacy Advocates Say

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The establishment of the NSA’s twin, Cyber Command, also created a Chekhov’s gun: broad access to the American internet. Now the SolarWinds hack has NSA’s finger on the trigger.

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Published Mar. 29 2021 5:53PM EDT

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The latest king-sized, disastrous hack into U.S. government and corporate data servers is prompting the head of the National Security Agency to suggest that a surveillance giant built to look at foreign threats might need even greater powers to spy on internet usage domestically.

Doing so, privacy advocates say, jeopardizes an...

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NSA Opens Door to Domestic Internet Spying, Privacy Advocates Say

The establishment of the NSA’s twin, Cyber Command, also created a Chekhov’s gun: broad access to the American internet. Now the SolarWinds hack has NSA’s finger on the trigger.

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