Why would you care? But think about it. If the government has your Visa bill. they can tell whether you drink. whether you smoke. what restaurants you go to. what your reading material is. what magazines or books you read. what doctors you see. what medicines you buy? Do you buy medicine? Do you gamble? All of these things can be determined. Not only can they determine stuff directly from your phone bill and directly from your Visa bill. they now have the ability to merge all of this information. Apparently. they have the ability to collect your contact lists. and sometimes they are collecting this in a way that is somewhat nefarious. We are supposed to be spying on foreignersforeigners who might attack us.
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Foreigners are being spied on.