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Social media more invasive in lives
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Jun. 28, 2013 11:26 am
If you are disturbed by what the National Security Agency can do, consider this: The NSA can learn a lot about you if it consciously chooses to. In contrast, the very survival of organizations such as Facebook depends on knowing what you do and what you search for, because that's how they make money.
Social media is a far more pervasive spy of the average American, and yet the NSA is under fire for trying to detect acts of terrorism before they happen. Which website do you think the NSA goes to first to learn about someone?
Nicholas Kariya
Cedar Rapids
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