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Even so, the technological tools for surveillance and censorship are far more effective and widespread today than before. Surveillance might have meant tapping
by zaptheimpaler 6y ago
Even so, the technological tools for surveillance and censorship are far more effective and widespread today than before. Surveillance might have meant tapping your phone, reading your mail or following you and all the manual labor and cost that entails a few decades ago. Today its conceivable to run a search across every email, call, message, photo, bank transaction, location signal etc a person has quickly and cheaply. The stakes are much higher when they are capable of so much more.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoYes those are good points.
- bobthepanda 6y agoAlthough this is fair, we do actually know what a state capable of this looks like. The East German Stasi ended up with records of about 5.6M out of a population of ~16M people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency
- throw2011190740 6y agoI wonder how many records Google hold. What's more is that the CIA has a stake in Google https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ I am pretty sure the Google/CIA operation make Stasi's capabilities look like child's play.