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Here you go:

Stellar Wind, Tempora, Prism.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001733041/the-pr...

This is a particularly interesting profile of Binney, who worked on stellar wind.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2018/09/13/uk-ma...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23123964

Of course they claimed after being exposed that these programs are legal, but I think lawless is apt as these agencies don't consider the law as a boundary they need to respect.

O tempora, o mores



Excellent long form piece that covers several of these topics as well.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/23/the-secret-sha...


Prism requires a warrant for US targets. Sounds far from lawless to me.




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