Someone needs to have a word with Acura’s marketing department

Acura’s new spy program—ahem, promotion—is popping up in web browsers.
Acura’s new spy program—ahem, promotion—is popping up in web browsers.
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Acura’s promotion to allow people to eavesdrop on the goings on at the Sundance film festival might look familiar to you. That’s because the last time you saw this visual identity, it was atop a slide deck outlining the US National Security Agency’s domestic internet spying program:

Logo for the NSA’s all-seeing internet wiretap.
Logo for the NSA’s all-seeing internet wiretap.
Image: via Edward Snowden

Hat tip to Scott Smith.