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How do you know you escaped surveillance? The government's been doing it to civilians since at least the 1930's.
by peterwwillis 8y ago
How do you know you escaped surveillance? The government's been doing it to civilians since at least the 1930's.
- lisper 8y agoMost of the technology that makes surveillance easy today (cell phones, the internet, electronic processing of credit card transactions) didn't exist in 1985. The government certainly could have spied on me but it would have been expensive and they would have had no reason to target me. I was nobody. Nowadays surveillance is cheap enough to do it indiscriminately, but it wasn't then.