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xgbi on Feb 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are buildin...

They never got an official, judicial, slap, which certainly means it must be legal, isn't it?

dekhn on Feb 21, 2020 [–]

Found to be illegal at the judicial level: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html then overturned by the 9th court. Then Congress stepped in and changed laws to make the situation "clearer".

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