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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…
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> new Best OPSEC assumes that Five+4Eyes have had all of the data, deanonymized, since 2013. Thanks NSA!
We need to demand more options on technology platforms! We cannot impose effective consumer pressure when we are forced to choose between two locked down App Stores which make it impossible to categorically prevent these kinds of malicious actions. How long do you think it would take for a "Little Snitch"-like application to pop up that firewalls location API access if the platforms were more open?
Can they tell us what members of our corporate security departments participated in Jan At this point we know our employers know but are covering it up so as not to anger RWers. We don't even know if insurrectionists were purged from corporate security departments or if the rest of the department has been vetted extra. All we know is our employers want us back into the office to serve as their human shields.
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
The most recent example i remember was of facial recognition in airports. Media reported it, some people whined about it, oh maybe the people will demand privacy? lol. Now its standard procedure. Delta even does boarding based on facial ID by default.
"Raising awareness" does nothing. Commenting on online forums does nothing. The government is in control in every way, of the markets and hence jobs/unemployment, of privacy and surveillance. We've all become excellent at reporting and following bad news even while being completely incapable of effecting any change. The median person is too poor or dumb or disempowered for this to even crack the top 10 issues. They're complaining about gas prices and rent instead. We choose between 2 geriatric clowns who can't possibly keep up with what 100,0000 government employees are doing every 4 years and a congress that can't pass a law to save its life. Democracy is working super well lol.
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Depends on your threat model. I don't include state actors in mine, they can employ $5 hammers just as easily as crypto breakers
you’re fine with state actors being able to precisely target propaganda / inciting calls to violence based on psychological profiles etc, including your neighbors
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
No one cares. This kind of surveillance and massive overreach by intelligence agencies has been reported dozens of times for at least 20 years now. The most recent example i remember was of facial recognition in airports. Media reported it, some people whined about it, oh maybe the people will demand privacy? lol. Now its standard procedure. Delta even does boarding based on facial ID by default. "Raising awareness"…
You may feel as though the median person is too poor or dumb or disempowered, and that may disempower you, but there are many other people who tirelessly work against these types of overreaches, whether its' FOIA requests, campaigns, articles, or otherwise.
I see no point in such a post, it drifted into some sort of anti-democracy rant.