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> If you are on the internet the NSA is spying on you and everyone else.

There's a difference between passively collecting and actively targeting.

Right, but the switch is flipped from passive collection to active targeting in secret court hearings* and if they already have been passively collecting, you could go from no concern to being actively targeted without ever knowing.

They couldn't do this if they weren't drag-netting.

*FISA courts have 11 denied requests and over 34,000 approved.

11 denied requests? Those prosecutors must have been sloppy. Usually you don’t see denials because prosecutors know well enough not to waste the court’s time.

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