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thank you, that's a very thoughtful answer I'm curious: do you believe that if I use GMail, that the US (or other) government still today mass-collects it (inc

by plg 10y ago

thank you, that's a very thoughtful answer I'm curious: do you believe that if I use GMail, that the US (or other) government still today mass-collects it (incl content, not just metadata), and stores it for future analysis? I know there's a public narrative about it but I'm asking for your opinion since you seem well informed about the issues. I know what I think (I think they absolutely 100% do whatever they can get away with)

moxious 10y ago
Yes, I believe they do. But it's not as bad as people think; while they will have your emails or at least likely will, people underestimate their signal / noise problem. I think as often as they're doing horrible super spy stuff, they're drowning in garbage and can't find what they need. Excessive paranoia and Bay Area magical thinking will tend to claim that the NSA can solve this problem by sprinkling magic "big data" sauce on it but it's a really hard problem if you are them.