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You do realize this is peanuts compared to the amount of information the US collect on its own people today?
by eldenbishop 16y ago
You do realize this is peanuts compared to the amount of information the US collect on its own people today?
- motters 16y agoThe technology and storage capacity of organisations like the Stasi in the 1980s is utterly trivial compared to what's possible now. Technology also greatly reduces the costs of spying, such that mass surveillance and "automatic policing" becomes economically viable without needing to employ an army of informants, investigators and people steaming open snail mail correspondence.