Government officials, including nsa employees, a member of the group told 404 media. Coming on the heels of the signal scandal, a german news magazine reported that phone numbers, emails and some passwords of top trump administration security officials can be easily accessed. They posted files containing personal data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, and even home addresses of officials.
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A whistleblower complaint says the personal data of over 300 million americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by former members of the department of government.
Privacy experts say the moves bring the country closer to a surveillance state, increase the government’s vulnerability to cyberattacks and risk pushing people away from public services.
Courts, lawmakers, and the public must repeatedly answer what constitutes a “reasonable” government intrusion on personal data when protecting national security This balance shifts as new technologies create unforeseen ways to collect and analyze information, and as security threats evolve.
