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> governments [...] could easily inspect "their" people Governments can now spy on their people via old fashioned surveillance: wire-tapping, informants, socia
by credit_guy 6y ago
> governments [...] could easily inspect "their" people
Governments can now spy on their people via old fashioned surveillance: wire-tapping, informants, social media analysis, etc. If a nation has the checks and balances to prevent that, then it's very likely they'll be able to prevent satellites peeking into your home. If not, it could potentially be another tool in their oppression toolkit, but not terribly efficient compared to the mountains of tools they already have, like traffic light CCTV cameras, highway tollbooths, tracking of credit card payments, tracking of internet-connected personal devices, etc, etc.
- giantg2 6y agoThere may not be specific laws preventing this sort of surveillance because it is unknown. Sure, you could have it considered as a general 4th ammendment violation which would protect the general population. You'll still have it used against small numbers of high-value targets. I think the main thing preventing widespread use is that once you start using these technologies on a larger scale, then people can identify it's capabilities (making it less effective, especially against the highest value targets) and also creating public backlash once a sufficient number of 'normal' people have been targeted (without getting 'disappeared').
- EricE 6y agoEven if there were laws would they bother to comply? I’m still shocked by how little people understand what Snowden exposed about what the NSA is already doing - if you are concerned about these satellites you should be even more concerned about the other crap already going on that we KNOW the NSA has been lying about.