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With the NSA looking for terrorists on video games, it's now time to be afraid

EFF IN THE NEWS
By Dave Maass
December 19, 2013

Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, agrees. "This shows that the NSA wants a world in which there is no privacy, no spaces outside the watchful eye of the government, and without oversight," he told me.

Michelle Quinn
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
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