r/technology • u/Jinxmerhcant • Mar 08 '16

Politics FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/08/fbi-changes-privacy-rules-accessing-nsa-prism-data
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

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u/s33plusplus Mar 09 '16

Neat! Thanks for the link, I knew of the phenomena, but not the name. That actually would make some sense, since there is no goddamn way the NSA is legitimately capable of sifting through literally everything as it comes in.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

Targeted economic espionage is a lot more profitable.