By abolishing traditional privacy protection, the Patriot Act created “an entire terror industry,” according to a 2021 report by Action Center on Race and Economy. The biggest beneficiaries have been Silicon Valley tech companies, particularly Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, who have partnered with federal intelligence agencies to mine data and “profit from the war on terror by at least $44 billion since 2001.” The Patriot Act passage, the report says, “opened the door for Big Tech to become, first and foremost, the brokers of our personal data, selling it to secret agencies and private
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Patriot Act spying in Americans enriched big tech
