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I used to be skeptical of the skeptics, thought they were paranoid to worry about 'big tech' snooping and tracking our lives. Turns out it is not big tech but 'big govt' that I should've been worried about. We are in danger of turning into a surveillance state
It's safe to say we're all being tracked 24/7. Can you believe millions of people are wearing biometric scanners connected to the internet on their body all day and night! To the people who remember, we've lost our way.
The world before cell phones was also one where people movement was incredibly easy to anticipate, a vast amount of people would have never traveled farther than a few gours by car from their birth place, buying online was an outlier and news sources could all be fully controled.
That wasn't some eden where a government had no idea what the average people would be doing or thinking or had a hard time controling.
It's important everyone becomes educated about the fact that virtually every mobile app sells some part of your data that leads to some private company possessing the ability to draw a circle around your house on map and then detect all patterns of life without any PII. I don't think it's fair to pit this as a US gov't surveillance problem. It's true though - the Government missions involved, where this type of data…
Reminder to readers to use F-Droid
Note that this is just records of some of the federal agencies, not all of them, according to the linked ACLU report: > "Although the litigation is ongoing, we are now making public the records that CBP, ICE, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, and several offices within DHS Headquarters have provided us to date." The NSA is still vacuuming up all the metadata and a good fraction of the content from the ma…
The NSA isn't "vacuuming up all the metadata and a good fraction of the content from the main nodes." It does full take in some countries with national security interest and collects data to or from some endpoints outside the US known to belong to foreigners with a court order.
We know all of this from the documents Snowden leaked and the documents the government declassified.
Note that this is just records of some of the federal agencies, not all of them, according to the linked ACLU report: > "Although the litigation is ongoing, we are now making public the records that CBP, ICE, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, and several offices within DHS Headquarters have provided us to date." The NSA is still vacuuming up all the metadata and a good fraction of the content from the ma…
And yet, even with all of this surveillance, we still have mass shootings every five days.
It's safe to say we're all being tracked 24/7. Can you believe millions of people are wearing biometric scanners connected to the internet on their body all day and night! To the people who remember, we've lost our way.
This should not be surprising at all ... hope we still remember the Snowden revelation ....
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The NSA has an unlimited budget to store all the data they want. They have massive, billion-dollar data centers around the country (and the world?). The one in Utah is perhaps the best known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Nothing is unlimited. If it cut into our tank budget, or anything old retirees care about, something would happen.
Nothing is unlimited, especially inflation. The idea of a "budget" when the FED can (and does) create trillions of dollars out of thin air with a few keystrokes is antiquated. They can - and do - devote whatever resources they desire for "national security".
What's the name of the phenomena wherein people who once mocked the idea of this occuring now act as if it's obvious and unremarkable?
Note that this is just records of some of the federal agencies, not all of them, according to the linked ACLU report: > "Although the litigation is ongoing, we are now making public the records that CBP, ICE, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, and several offices within DHS Headquarters have provided us to date." The NSA is still vacuuming up all the metadata and a good fraction of the content from the ma…