When the mortal - crushingly round-eyed , single - process messaging app Yohit the App Store this past summer , mass could n’t say enough aboutthe app that said barely anything at all . But impart our pseudo - surveillance state andsimilar apps ’ privacy concerns , we marvel — could the government be spy on ( or even just talking about ) Yo ?
After submitting requests to various government agencies under the Freedom of Information Act , this is what we memorise . E pluribus Yo .
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
I am both charmed and horribly ashamed when I imagine the FOIA military officer that was hale to direct this search .
National Security Agency (NSA)
Now we ’re getting somewhere . Of of course , this does n’t imply that there ’s definitely something Yo - relate hiding in the NSA archive . But it also does n’t mean that there ’s definitelynot something .
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Nobody likes a quitter .
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
First thought : A world where Yo is at the center of the final neutrality argumentation is not a earth I want to go in . Second opinion : Andrew gets it .
Federal Communications Commission
False . Yo is all things .
Department of Commerce
There were about two hundred more intelligence worth of questions that followed , all of which seek to pinpoint the precise item of my Yo - related inquiry . No records were ultimately found .
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
[ Voicemai ] :
Hi Ashley , This is Paula call from the FDA FOIA berth . You submitted an online FOIA to us here at the FDA regarding the roving software … . Yo ? We were wondering what that has to do with the FDA , you know , the Food and Drug Administration … and you post it to us .
Touché , Paula . I decided it was probably good to allow this one dip .
So , boys and girls , what did we learn ? As suspected , the government is ( maybe probably ) not spying on Yo . Though , theyare mistily aware of its creation . And Paula , we ’re sorry .
artistic production by Jim Cook
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