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>Except for the scale; to get equivalent results, you'd have to have thousands of people watching. Which is the only thing that matters. Sure, warrants aren't
by EpicEng 7y ago
>Except for the scale; to get equivalent results, you'd have to have thousands of people watching.
Which is the only thing that matters. Sure, warrants aren't necessary, but the concept of mass, automated surveillance is so new that we simply haven't figured out what to do about it yet.
- magduf 7y ago>Sure, warrants aren't necessary, but the concept of mass, automated surveillance is so new that we simply haven't figured out what to do about it yet. We haven't? It seems like we have: we're embracing it wholeheartedly. We're just careful to only use it (for now) on groups of people who don't have much power to push back on it.
- djtriptych 7y agoSo who is "we" here?
- magduf 7y agoSociety, of course. Some people may disagree with it, but the society at large is doing this things, either led by or approved by our political leaders, whom most of the citizens elect.