How The Cartels Are Winning the Digital Drug War | Proton Data Wars | VICE News
Published May 19, 2026
This video has 350K views and 2.79K likes, ranking #4,437,880 globally among tracked YouTube videos by view count.
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Comments
152
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When we think about the War on Drugs, we tend to picture police kicking down doors or busting dealers on the street. But these days, the drug war is just as much about huge networks of surveillance, data analysis and digital espionage. And this spying isn’t just being carried out by the cops. Made by Proton, Data War…
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- May 19, 2026
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