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title: "Opinion : I work for the NSA, We cannot afford to lose the digital revolution"
date: 2019-11-07T12:00:00.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2019/11/07/opinion-i-work-for-the-nsa-we-cannot-afford-to/
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# Opinion : I work for the NSA, We cannot afford to lose the digital revolution

[ November 7, 2019 ](https://www.rmendes.net/blog/2019/opinion-i-work-for-the-nsa-we-cannot-afford-to)

## __[Opinion : I work for the NSA, We cannot afford to lose the digital revolution](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/opinion/nsa-privacy.html)

I'm not sure we would be able to adapt to the all the challenges mentioned by the author, honestly, lawmakers, policymakers, politicians have themselves barely adapted to just the rise of the Internet, platforms, data, privacy and so on..we need a a new generation in power, that can actually grasp, understand and fight for the general interest, the commons.   

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