electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna, also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

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A warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna, also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

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US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices

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To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.

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