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		bgentry on Aug 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand > I seriously doubt the NSA was tasked with working a non-terrorism related piracy case, but that's me. There are many examples of NSA and Five Eyes spying that have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism (though afaik none specific to copyright infringement). I linked to a handful in this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907667

dogma1138 on Aug 2, 2017 | [–]

The GP is still somewhat correct.

All those cases fall within the domain of legitimate foreign intelligence targets of any organization.

Intelligence agencies perform political and economic intelligence all the time.

But Kim is just an irrelevant target he's way too of a small fish for them to bother.

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