General discussion of surveillance history and Snowden revelations
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The passage provides a broad overview of surveillance practices and historical context but does not contain specific, actionable leads, new allegations, or concrete details linking powerful actors to Mentions Snowden's disclosures about government collection of phone and internet data. References historical surveillance by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI on civil rights leaders. States that surveillance pr
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