https://www.newstarget.com/2023-05-02-10k-federal-employees-access-nsa-surveillance-data.html
In his testimony before lawmakers, Office of Inspector General (OIG) Michael Horowitz casually admitted that more than 10,000 federal employees have access to the National Security Agency's (NSA) database for surveillance inquiries.
That database contains the electronic data on all Americans, including emails, text messages, social media posts, instant messages, direct messages, phone calls, geolocation identifiers, purchases made using electronic funds, banking records, and “any keystroke any American person puts into any electronic device for any reason.”
This is a scary list, to be fair. The idea that a government databank holds every single datapoint from every single American is creepy enough, let alone the thought that 10,000 random people who work for the government are able to access it on demand.
If the United States still had a working government, all of this would stop immediately, and the NSA database destroyed. Instead, this surveillance state only continues to grow with each passing day, and nobody on either side of the aisle seems to be taking this breach of the Constitution seriously.
(Related: In 2013, the NSA admitted that it spies on 75 percent of all U.S. internet traffic, including emails, texts, and even voice calls – is that still true today?)
The NSA data collection center needs to be destroyed: it's unconstitutional