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Does the CIA's Dark Past Foretell Current Data Abuse?
By Lisa Vaas

News Analysis: With the CIA's release of reports on 25 years of illegal exploits, data privacy advocates now have a lengthy record of abuses to justify restraining governments' access to personal data.

With the CIA's June 26 release of documents detailing 25 years of illegal exploits, data privacy advocates now have a book-length record of misdeeds—including examples of data abuse such as wiretapping—to back up their arguments that personal data is better off when kept out of the hands of an unsupervised government or law enforcement agency.

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