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 Right. The government agencies already have similar tools. What makes this different and worse is that it's normalizing it in a fun and frictionless way via an app. 
 in other words, this company is almost certainly bankrolled by intelligence agencies as propaganda agents 
 Anything is possible. 
 Even if it isn't it may have employees with "special interests". 
 The gov't just buys, requisitions or scrapes everything they can from private providers, since the standard today is that anything is available for a buck.

And once it's stored on a RAID in a bureau office or datacenter somewhere, it's never ever going away.

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