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The US government recently released its annual report of surveillance activities, including the numbers of individuals about whom data was collected. It reveals that NSA tripled metadata collection from 2016 to taking over 534 million call records in 2017. Warrantless FISA Section 702 content queries involving U.S. persons increased from 5,288 to 7,512. Many other types of surveillance activities are also performed by the US government, along with state and law enforcement agencies, as well as other countries' governments. How many agencies have surveillance programs? What surveillance tools a
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