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AnIrishDuck on June 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obama: If you are a US citizen the NSA can’t liste...

There's the reason the Germans wouldn't even take a census until recently because of what the Nazis did with that data during WWII:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230398250457642...

Can you imagine what kind of weapon this massive library of data would be in the wrong hands?

gnarbarian on June 18, 2013 [–]

The article is behind a pay wall.

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