"The law essentially gave the government the ability to get a lot of information and lowered the standard for them to be able to get it," said Neema Singh Guliani, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Public shock happened that involved an extent of the government data collection.
It was a showcase of ideology as much as sporting achievement. The main venue was Moscow’s Central Lenin Stadium, now better known as Luzhniki, which also held the soccer World Cup final in 2018. The Soviets and their allies held up sporting successes as a validation of their political systems.
The game was boycotted. The Olympic Games in the 1980s were used to share the beliefs of nations, not to participate in sports competitions.