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Mass surveillance gets in the way of fighting terrorism

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Published July 13, 2017 12:00pm ET
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Mass surveillance gets in the way of fighting terrorism
Mass data collection may be causing credible threats to be lost in a sea of threats that are often false, sending law enforcement running in circles. Omar Mateen, the Pulse massacre shooter, had been interviewed twice by the FBI after being reported by members of his mosque, so why wasn't his attack thwarted? (AP Photo/John Raoux) | John Raoux

Intel founder Gordon Moore once predicted that computing power would double every two years, an observation that would eventually be dubbed Moore’s Law and used to show just how quickly technology advances.

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