[PapaBear3625]

And one of the biggest customers for all that personal data which Facebook and other tech giants collect about you? The Deep State, via the PRISM program:

Documents indicate that PRISM is "the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports", and it accounts for 91% of the NSA's internet traffic acquired under FISA section 702 authority."

[PapaBear3625]

tech ping

[Zathras]

I wasn’t involved in setting this up when I worked for Intel but I heard about it.
They got Federal $$$$ to create it.