Desecrating the Patriot Act

FBI abused the Patriot Act to secretly obtain data about people in the U.S.

Don't you feel violated? Or maybe it's just karma payback for that time you read your boyfriend's email when he forgot to clear his cookies.

Editorial note: Whoa! You've found a super-old post here on BuzzFeed, from an earlier era of the site. It doesn't really represent where we are anymore, and may in fact be totally broken, but we're leaving it up as a part of our early history.

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