President-elect Donald Trump is only months away from wielding the power of American intelligence agencies, including the NSA's mass surveillance operation. 。

Many people on Twitter have already begun to voice their concern.。

This, they've said, is what happens when a complacent nation allows the construction of a legally dubious mass-surveillance system under a president not generally viewed as irresponsible. Then, when the reigns of the country are handed to a man whose campaign staffers wouldn't even allow him the use of his own Twitter account in the lead-up to the election, it's too late to do much.。

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If it's terrifying to imagine Trump in charge of history's most expansive & penetrating surveillance apparatus, perhaps it should not exist. 。

— Sam Adler-Bell (SamAdlerBell) November 8, 2016
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President Obama signed into law new surveillance restrictions in 2015 that limited government access to phone records, but the American surveillance apparatus extends far beyond access to phone records.。

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The agency has a program called XKeyscore that allows it to track an internet user's every move.。 The NSA gathers text messages and has a team of hackers to break into data the agency can't readily access. 。These are just a few examples from one agency, and we only know about them because former NSA contractor Edward Snowden fed this information to publications such as。

The Guardian 。

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back in 2013. 。