Frankly it went bye bye with the fall of the wall. Back then they needed to appear to be better than the soviets, and thus upheld the laws on privacy. But now

Frankly it went bye bye with the fall of the wall. Back then they needed to appear to be better than the soviets, and thus upheld the laws on privacy. But now there is no comparative low water mark, and whats worse they now have one or more snitch in every home. And that is compromised computers. Every phone, every laptop, and soon enough every IOT device, will be a potential snitch on our activities. And where they earlier needed large staffs to listen, watch, and take notes, they can now automatically transcribe every conversation with timestamps down to the second. And soon enough they can even do it with video (if not already). Keep in mind that this is all tech that the likes of Google and Amazon is working on to provide more services for us all...